| #9083, aired 2024-04-17 | ENDS WITH "B" $400: Don't let your book go out without one of these publicity notices on its jacket a blurb |
| #9079, aired 2024-04-11 | MUSICIANS' MEMOIRS $1600: In 2023 Barbra Streisand put the corners of her mind in a book, including how in 2023 she added back 2 scenes to this 1973 film The Way We Were |
| #9077, aired 2024-04-09 | ANCIENT HISTORY $1200: The Israelites' foes in the Book of Judges, these people were brought under Assyrian control by around 800 B.C. the Philistines |
| #9075, aired 2024-04-05 | ALLITERATIVE LIT $200: Chapters in this book include "The Departure of Boromir" & "Shelob's Lair" The Two Towers |
| #9074, aired 2024-04-04 | TRAIN TALES $400: A book of timetables for railways & steamers helped the protagonist make his less-than-3-month journey in this 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | PHILOSOPHY $800: Skye Cleary's book on Simone de Beauvoir is titled "How to Be" this synonym of genuine authentic |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | FICTION $1000: The title of this 2023 bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a theater company, not a body of water Tom Lake |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | PHILOSOPHY $1200: Before he was the title guy who spake about teaching of the Superman, he appeared in Nietszche's book "The Gay Science" Zarathustra |
| #9071, aired 2024-04-01 | ART & CRIME $400: "Vanished Smile", a true crime book by R.A. Scotti, is subtitled "The Mysterious Theft of" this artwork the Mona Lisa |
| #9069, aired 2024-03-28 | 2-WORD POP CULTURE $200: In the preface to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" we learn that these calming words are on the front of the reference book don't panic |
| #9067, aired 2024-03-26 | WORLD STAR $2000: This French actor has starred in Hollywood films like "Jurassic World" & "The Book of Clarence" Omar Sy |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: This book says "They cast pur, that is, the lot"--hence the holiday of Purim Esther |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | NONFICTION $1000: Published in 1962, it's Barbara Tuchman's acclaimed book detailing the first month of World War I The Guns of August |
| #9065, aired 2024-03-22 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $12,000 (Daily Double): This name of the first minor prophet in book order often comes before "can you see" in punny sermon titles Hosea |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | CHARACTERS IN BOOK SERIES $1000: The first Sherlock Holmes novel was this one involving a message written in blood A Study in Scarlet |
| #9064, aired 2024-03-21 | NOTABLE NAMES $1600: A 1920 book by Thomas Looney & the movie "Anonymous" pushed the theory that this earl was the real Shakespeare the Earl of Oxford (Edward de Vere) |
| #9063, aired 2024-03-20 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $1000: Rhonda Byrne wrote this 2006 book, a hidden "principle of the universe", but don't tell anyone; scratch that. Tell me, now The Secret |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $400: Alan, Wayne, Merrill & Jay were some of the other members of this singing family, with hits like "One Bad Apple" The Osmonds |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $800: Though she no longer practices, this star of "27 Dresses" was raised in the Mormon faith & lives in Utah Heigl |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1200: Raised in the LDS Church, Paul Walker gained worldwide fame in this movie series before dying in a car accident in 2013 Fast & Furious (The Fast & the Furious) |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $1600: Dubbed the "Empress of Soul", this singer has won 7 competitive Grammys--4 solo & 3 with the Pips Knight |
| #9061, aired 2024-03-18 | THE BOOK OF MORMONS $2000: In 2011 this lead singer of the Killers was part of the "I'm a Mormon" campaign Flowers |
| #9060, aired 2024-03-15 | LOST WORKS $400: According to one guy who read the lost memoirs of this 19th century poet & lord, the book was "fit only for a brothel" Byron |
| #9059, aired 2024-03-14 | SONGS OF YOUTH $200: In 2004 Natasha Bedingfield sang, "Today is where your book begins, the rest is still" this title word unwritten |
| #9058, aired 2024-03-13 | 17th CENTURY WRITING $800: As you see, there are geese in France but Jean La Fontain's book of fables included the hen that laid these valuables golden eggs |
| #9057, aired 2024-03-12 | PROSE & CONGRESS $1200: JFK won a Pulitzer for this book that detailed the lives of 8 fearless political leaders Profiles in Courage |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | THE CIVIL WAR $400: 3-letter last name of Johnny, a symbol of the typical southern soldier; in a 1905 book by a war veteran, he's paired with Billy Yank Reb |
| #9056, aired 2024-03-11 | WORLD OF LIT $2000: The short story collection "Face to Face" was the first book by this South African woman who won a 1991 Nobel Prize Nadine Gordimer |
| #9055, aired 2024-03-08 | LEFTOVERS $1000: This book about Natty Bumppo's youth was chronologically first of the "Leatherstocking Tales" but was written last The Deerslayer |
| #9054, aired 2024-03-07 | BEFORE & AFTER $1000: Siam-set musical adaptation of Asimov's book about machines that follow 3 laws The King and I, Robot |
| #9051, aired 2024-03-04 | NONFICTION $200: After taking on salt & cod, Mark Kurlansky peeled the many layers of this in a 2023 book an onion |
| #9050, aired 2024-03-01 | GENDERED LANGUAGE $800: This term for a woman in charge is the title of a book by entrepreneur Sophia Amoruso a girlboss |
| #9048, aired 2024-02-28 | WOMEN IN LIT $1200: The Swedish title of the first book about this heroine translates as "men who hate women" Lisbeth Salander |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | 40 YEARS AGO: 1984 $400: Bob Woodward's "Wired: The Short Life & Fast Times of" this comic offended some of its subject's friends & family John Belushi |
| #9044, aired 2024-02-22 | BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR $7,400 (Daily Double): The history book "The Sleepwalkers" says this event not only stirred war fever in Austria but ended the life of an advocate for peace the assassination of Ferdinand (Archduke Ferdinand's death) |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $600: A Coen brother, a "Last of Us" father Joel |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $800: Generations have loved Hubert Selby Jr.'s tale of dope fiends, hoodlums & thieves in "Last Exit to" this place Brooklyn |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | THEIR NAME'S A BIBLE BOOK $800: Reynolds of the visual arts, Bell of classical music Joshua |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1200: In this Giles Foden novel, a doctor working for Idi Amin is a witness to much of the dictator's madness The Last King of Scotland |
| #9041, aired 2024-02-19 | GEOGRAPHIC BOOK TITLES $1600: In "The Boys from Brazil", a Nazi hunter chases clones of Hitler created by this fugitive doctor Dr. Mengele |
| #9039, aired 2024-02-15 | JACKSON $400: Titles in the book series featuring this protagonist include "The Titan's Curse" & "The Battle of the Labyrinth" Percy Jackson |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $400: To tempt Eve in this 17th century epic poem, Satan takes the form of a serpent (he sneaks into its mouth as it sleeps) Paradise Lost |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $800: On his third voyage, this hero of "The Arabian Nights" lands on an island home to a man-eating snake as big as a palm tree Sinbad |
| #9038, aired 2024-02-14 | SNAKES IN A BOOK $1200: In the 4,000-year-old epic of him, this hero finds a plant that grants immortality, but a snake snatches it away & eats it Gilgamesh |
| #9037, aired 2024-02-13 | WISTFUL THINKING $2000: One benefit of reading this Stephen Chbosky book: "Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody" The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #9036, aired 2024-02-12 | FICTIONAL CHARACTERS $800: Roald Dahl wrote of this book-loving girl with telekinetic powers Matilda |
| #9034, aired 2024-02-08 | END OF STORY $2000: "I'll pray, and then I'll sleep" is the balm at the end of this Pulitzer-winning Marilynne Robinson novel Gilead |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | ANTHROPOLOGISTS $400: Ruth Benedict's interest in the culture of this country led to the 1946 book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" Japan |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $800: The lines "A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace" come from this book Ecclesiastes |
| #9033, aired 2024-02-07 | QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT $1,200 (Daily Double): The second verse of this book begins, "Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel..." Numbers |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | MOUNTAINS OF LITERATURE $400: Peter Matthiessen climbed mountains in Nepal to see the snow type of this creature, the title of his National Book Award winner a leopard |
| #9027, aired 2024-01-30 | STARTS WITH SOFT "G" $400: Book 1 of the ancient work "Elements" deals with basic concepts in this field like "a line is a length without breadth" geometry |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $600: A 2005 book tells the chilling saga of this group that included 90% of German kids by 1939 the Hitler Youth |
| #9022, aired 2024-01-23 | YOUNG PEOPLE'S NONFICTION $800: "You" do this is an old insult on the ball field; now it's the 4-word title of softball star Jennie Finch's book teaching self-belief Throw Like a Girl |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $800: Let's toss around "Mrs. Frisby & the ____ of NIMH" Rats |
| #9020, aired 2024-01-19 | THE BOOK TITLE ANIMAL $1000: Not just for the birds, & a Man Booker Prize finalist:
"____ English" Pigeon |
| #9019, aired 2024-01-18 | THE WRITER'S STRIKE $1200: Jack Kelly's nonfiction book "The Edge of Anarchy" is about the 1894 strike against this man's railroad car company Pullman |
| #9018, aired 2024-01-17 | FRAILTY, THY NAME IS MAN $11,600 (Daily Double): In a Robert Graves novel, this emperor introduces himself with some of his nicknames, like "The Idiot" Claudius |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $800: In Ellen Meister's "Dorothy Parker Drank Here", the plucky title scribe literally & wittily haunts the halls of this hotel the Algonquin |
| #9017, aired 2024-01-16 | AUTHORS AS BOOK CHARACTERS $1200: Part of "Becoming George Sand" details her relationship with this equally brilliant composer Chopin |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | ANAGRAMS $800: A book of the Bible:
YOU RENT DOME Deuteronomy |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | UFOs $1000: A History Channel show dramatized the story of this real-life U.S. Air Force "Project" that investigated UFOs Project Blue Book |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $1600: This 1997 history bestseller postulates that the 3 things in its title enabled the European conquest of the Americas Guns, Germs and Steel |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $2000: According to an old spiritual, "no more water," this title of James Baldwin's 1963 bestseller about racial tensions in America The Fire Next Time |
| #9015, aired 2024-01-12 | BOOK TITLES $9,200 (Daily Double): You'll find this Steinbeck title in Genesis 4:16 East of Eden |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | JUST DESERTS $200: In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai" Exodus |
| #2, aired 2024-01-12 | KIDDY LIT $600: This feline friend of Winnie-the-Pooh appears in "The House at Pooh Corner", but not in the original book Tigger |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | PARTS OF THE WHOLE $200: Jacket,
spine,
leaves a book |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $600: "And I saw in the right hand of him... a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals" (Book of) Revelation |
| #9014, aired 2024-01-11 | THE BIBLE BOOK SAITH... $4,000 (Daily Double): "For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas" Jonah |
| #24, aired 2024-01-09 | CAN I GET AN "A" MEN! $300: These dancers are performing his work, "Revelations"; he's also the subject of the book, "Dancing Revelations" Alvin Ailey |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | RECENT MOVIES $1000: This Scorsese film is based on David Grann's nonfiction book about Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma Killers of the Flower Moon |
| #9011, aired 2024-01-08 | ITALIAN LITERATURE $1600: In Umberto Eco's "The Name of the Rose", murders at a 14th c. monastery center on a book on laughter by this ancient Greek Aristotle |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | JOHN GREEN $400: (John Green presents the clue.) Two books that I often recommend & that inspired me to write for teens are "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson & one by Walter Dean Myers; Steve is on trial for murder, but is he really this, the title of the book? a monster |
| #9008, aired 2024-01-03 | WHERE'D YOU GO? $400: The departure of the Israelites from Egypt is fittingly covered in this second book of the Torah Exodus |
| #9005, aired 2023-12-29 | TV WRITERS $200: Noah Kloor has written for "The Mandalorian" as well as "The Book of" this "Star Wars" bounty hunter Boba Fett |
| #9000, aired 2023-12-22 | MOVIE INSPIRATIONS $800: Christopher Nolan said he got inspired to make "Oppenheimer" after this "Twilight" star gifted him a book of Oppie's speeches (Robert) Pattinson |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $200: Cinderella is warned by her godmother that if she stays at the ball after midnight, her coach will be one of these again a pumpkin |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $600: This author created Tik-Tok of Oz, a mechanical man who ran on clockworks L. Frank Baum |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $800: Published in 1930, "The Secret of the Old Clock" was the first mystery this teen detective solved Nancy Drew |
| #8999, aired 2023-12-21 | BOOK TOCK $1000: In "Great Expectations", all the clocks in her house stopped at 20 minutes to 9, when she learned of her fiancé's betrayal Miss Havisham |
| #8998, aired 2023-12-20 | IT'S A VISION BOARD $600: In the first book in English by a woman, Julian of Norwich lists visions including the universe as the size of this a hazelnut |
| #8990, aired 2023-12-08 | WORDS FROM ARABIC $1200: Originally a set of tables recording astronomical movements, today it can be an annual reference book of articles & events an almanac |
| #8989, aired 2023-12-07 | IT'S RAINING MENSA $2000: Leslie Charteris had the smarts for Mensa & also to come up with the character of Simon Templar, star of this book series The Saint |
| #22, aired 2023-12-06 | LITERARY TOURISM $400: Romantics at heart still come to see the covered bridges made famous by this 1992 book by Robert James Waller The Bridges of Madison County |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: You'll find illustrations from "Ed Wood" & "Sweeney Todd" among the 1000+ in the book "The Art of" this director Tim Burton |
| #8986, aired 2023-12-04 | CHILDREN'S LITERATURE $1,600 (Daily Double): An out-of-control dog meets his match in John Grogan's him "and the Kittens" Marley |
| #21, aired 2023-11-29 | POEMS ABOUT POETRY $600: If you read "If—", you'll be taking a look / At a poem by this author of "The Jungle Book" Kipling |
| #8979, aired 2023-11-23 | NORDIC LITERATURE $1200: Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo |
| #8977, aired 2023-11-21 | SPEAK OF THE DEVIL $800: The Book of Common Prayer: "From all the deceits of the world," this "and the devil, good Lord, deliver us" the flesh |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | A LITTLE "DEB"LL DO YA $800: You'll find her exploits extolled in the Bible's Book of Judges Deborah |
| #8975, aired 2023-11-17 | HETERONYMS $800: An undercoat of paint, or an old-time school book primer & primer |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | FINISH THE TERRIBLE RHYME $600: "Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" was not writ just to shame us / It is, however, right here now, from the Bible's book the Book of Amos |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | CANADIAN ARTISTES $1200: In 1980 this Toronto novelist wrote of "Life Before Man", 5 years before her book of life under man Atwood |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | ADVENTUROUS WOMEN $100: One of history's first travel writers, the 4th-century pilgrim Egeria explored the Holy Land using this book as a guide the Bible |
| #20, aired 2023-11-15 | COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING $600: "The Complete Story of the Cheerleading Movie that Changed, Like, Everything" is the partial title of a 2022 book saluting this film Bring It On |
| #8972, aired 2023-11-14 | BABY BOOKS $800: "Please, Baby, Please" is a kid's book from this director of "She's Gotta Have It" Spike Lee |
| #8969, aired 2023-11-09 | OSCAR-WINNING SCREENPLAYS $400: 2010:
Aaron Sorkin, from the book "The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook" The Social Network |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $200: Sir, your 1704 book "Opticks" laid the foundation for the science of spectrum analysis! You totally rock! Newton |
| #8968, aired 2023-11-08 | FAN MAIL TO HISTORIC FIGURES $3,200 (Daily Double): Will you sign my copy of the "Domesday Book" you commissioned, my king? It's a first edition from 1086 William the Conqueror |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it three years later Margaret Mead |
| #8963, aired 2023-11-01 | A FISH CALLED... $800: This beautiful rasbora that shares its name with a romance book brand is sure to be the talk of the tank harlequin |
| #19, aired 2023-11-01 | IN BOOKSTORES NOW $500 (Daily Double): A 2021 book, "Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli" is subtitled "The Epic Story of the Making of" this film The Godfather |
| #8960, aired 2023-10-27 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY CHARACTERS $1600: Mafala Hatimbi &
Elder McKinley The Book of Mormon |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $200: In 1977, he wrote "The Camera Never Blinks: Adventures of a TV Journalist" Dan Rather |
| #8958, aired 2023-10-25 | BOOK 'EM, DAN-O $800: When he made the 2005 "Time" 100 list, his book was described as "the novel that ate the world" Dan Brown |
| #18, aired 2023-10-25 | THE NOBEL PRIZE $600: The youngest-ever Nobel Prize winner is also a best-selling author, for her 2013 memoir titled "I Am" this Malala |
| #8955, aired 2023-10-20 | JUSTIN TIME $800: This world leader's 2014 book "Common Ground" told of growing up at 24 Sussex Drive Trudeau |
| #8953, aired 2023-10-18 | ROCK & ROLL BOOKSTORE $1200: A book claims that "the year that rock exploded" was 1971, the year of this Carole King album including "I Feel The Earth Move" Tapestry |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | MIDDLE "MAN" $800: Published annually, this type of reference book is full of facts & information, like the "World" or "Old Farmer's" one an almanac |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | THE QURAN $900: TGI this day of the week on which the book says to drop all business and respond to the call to prayer Friday |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | DENZEL WASHINGTON $1000: In a 2021 film adaptation of "Macbeth", Washington delivers the famous line "Out, out, brief" this candle |
| #17, aired 2023-10-18 | ARTISTIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $10,000 (Daily Double): "Sunflowers and Swirly Stars" is the subtitle of a book about this artist van Gogh |
| #8951, aired 2023-10-16 | THE LITERARY CHARACTER WHO SAID... $2000: "Mother, if only you knew how cruelly I've been tricked by a conspiracy of sub-humans. Ironically, the book of Fortuna is itself bad luck" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8950, aired 2023-10-13 | FELONIOUS MONKS $800: John de Roma is one of the brutal monks in the 16th c. Protestant "Book of" these people who died for their faith Martyrs |
| #8948, aired 2023-10-11 | BOOK CLUB $400: Charles Dickens rose to fame with "The Posthumous Papers of" this "Club" Pickwick |
| #16, aired 2023-10-11 | YOU'RE A HOMOPHONE, DIANE $1,000 (Daily Double): In her 1983 book's acknowledgements, primatologist Dian Fossey thanks mostly humans but also these animals mountain gorillas |
| #8945, aired 2023-10-06 | LITERARY POP $1600: These mega-cool rockers took their band name from an Aldous Huxley book about using mescaline The Doors |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | NO CAP $900: It can be a type of joke or the title "Cats" in a T.S. Eliot book of poems
_ R _ _ T I _ _ L practical |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | COMPUTING MILESTONES $1000: One of the first search engines shared its name with this comic book character, inspiring successors named Veronica & Jughead Archie |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | LITERARY BIOGRAPHY $400: A book about Poe "& the forging of American science" points out that in his one year at this school, Edgar was great at math West Point |
| #8942, aired 2023-10-03 | MEN OF MICHIGAN $1200: Born in Flint, this prolific documentarian wrote the book "Dude, Where's My Country?" Michael Moore |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | NATIVE AMERICANS $400: The book "Weaving the Dream" is the story of Mabel McKay, a renowned Pomo maker of these baskets |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | HODGE PODGE $1200: Comic book supervillain Cameron Hodge is an arch-foe of this group of mutant superheroes the X-Men |
| #8941, aired 2023-10-02 | EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY $1200: This tome was a collection of spells, charms & magical formulas for the deceased to use in the afterlife the Book of the Dead |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | OUI, OUI, HISTORY $100: A children's book tells of how this emperor met his "Bunnyloo" in 1807 when he was forced to flee an attacking pack of rabbits Napoleon |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $200: Morbidly true to form, Lemony Snicket dedicates the first book in this Y.A. series "to Beatrice -- darling, dearest, dead" A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $800: She dedicated 1946's "The Hollow" to "Larry & Danae, with apologies for using their swimming pool as the scene of a murder" Agatha Christie |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $1000: Toni Morrison dedicated this masterpiece to "sixty million and more"--the number of African victims claimed by slavery Beloved |
| #14, aired 2023-09-27 | BOOK DEDICATIONS $2,000 (Daily Double): This author of "The Fountainhead" dedicated 1957's "Atlas Shrugged" to 2 different men: her husband and her lover Ayn Rand |
| #8934, aired 2023-09-21 | WELCOME TO FANTASY ISLAND $400: A tropical island seems nice for a new post-apocalyptic society, but I fear a few British boys won't see the end of this 1954 book Lord of the Flies |
| #8933, aired 2023-09-20 | THE REAL (WHITE HOUSE) WIVES OF D.C. $400: In 2020 she topped John Waters & the Beastie Boys to win a Grammy for her spoken word album, an audio book of her memoir Michelle Obama |
| #8932, aired 2023-09-19 | PHRASES & IDIOMS $400: You don't have to be a Marvel hero to have this awareness of danger introduced in a 1962 comic book Spider-sense |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $600: 1967:
"A Century of Chillin' Solo" One Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $800: 1973:
"A Wheaties Slogan" Breakfast of Champions |
| #8931, aired 2023-09-18 | BOOK TITLES IN OTHER WORDS $1000: 1992:
"Actor Jeff or Beau Living in Huntsville, Alabama" The Bridges of Madison County |
| #8930, aired 2023-09-15 | THIRST $1200: In this book, the tiger Richard Parker was originally named Thirsty Life of Pi |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $1600: Poet Henry Vaughan wrote a book of religious devotions bearing the name of this "Mount" near Jerusalem the Mount of Olives |
| #8926, aired 2023-09-11 | RENAISSANCE LITERATURE $2000: Margaret of Navarre's 16th century book of stories "The Heptameron" was modeled on a longer work by this Italian Boccaccio |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: One of the 2 middle verses of the King James Bible is this book 103:2, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits" Psalms |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HISTORIC AMERICANS $400: Saying he was instructed by an angel named Moroni, he translated the "Book of Mormon" from a set of gold plates Joseph Smith |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $600: The book of this woman tells the story of a Moabite widow who was an ancestor of King David Ruth |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT $1000: The Hebrew name of this prophet with his own book is Yeshayahu, "God is salvation" Isaiah |
| #8924, aired 2023-07-27 | HERE BE PIRATES! $1600: In a book by Rafael Sabatini, "Captain Blood" is a feared pirate of this "Spanish" area of New World seas the Spanish Main |
| #8923, aired 2023-07-26 | ALL KINDS OF LITERATURE $1000: Dylan Thomas' poem about these "Boys" who "in their ruin lay the gold tithings barren" has inspired book & song titles "The Boys of Summer" |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $200: "They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of" this the Fight Club |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $600: Michele Alexander & Jeannie Long put it right there in the title--"How to" do this "in 10 Days: The Universal Don'ts of Dating" Lose a Guy |
| #8919, aired 2023-07-20 | A BY-THE-BOOK HOW TO $800: Wanna play God like him? "Make the being of a gigantic stature... eight feet in height, and proportionably large", or... don't (Dr. Victor) Frankenstein |
| #8918, aired 2023-07-19 | TITLES WITH PUNCTUATION $2000: (!) The title of this 1855 book about a young Brit sailing the Atlantic is used to mean "let's head in a certain direction" Westward Ho! |
| #8915, aired 2023-07-14 | MODERN FANTASY LIT $400: In a book by Gail Carson Levine, obedience is the curse of this title girl, "Enchanted"; she also pines for Prince Charmont Ella |
| #8914, aired 2023-07-13 | FLOWERY POETRY & PROSE $3,100 (Daily Double): The Spike Jonze film "Adaptation" is about trying to bring this steal of a book by Susan Orlean to the big screen The Orchid Thief |
| #8913, aired 2023-07-12 | WALKING & TALKING $800: This Bible book gives us the line "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil" Psalms |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | TAKE IT "E-Z" $400: For "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino actually rewrote the Bible for Jules Winnfield's quotation of this Old Testament book Ezekiel |
| #8910, aired 2023-07-07 | WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY $1200: Barbara Ehrenreich gave her 15 cents on the effects of welfare reform on the working class in this 2001 book with 2 coins in the title Nickel and Dimed |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $200: A mystery: "Langdon said... 'Well, folks, as you all know, I'm here tonight to talk about the power of symbols"' The Da Vinci Code |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $400: A novel, writing the clue for us: "This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure" The Hobbit |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $800: 1950s self-help, opening strong: "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF!" (in all caps) "Have faith in your abilities!" The Power of Positive Thinking |
| #8909, aired 2023-07-06 | SO I'M READING THIS BOOK $1000: A collection of poems: "I celebrate myself, & sing myself, & what I assume you shall assume" Leaves of Grass |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $200: "American Psycho": mayhem in Gotham New York City |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $201 (Daily Double): "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil":
Go South! Savannah, Georgia |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $400: "Gone, Baby, Gone":
a wicked good read Boston |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $600: "The Joy Luck Club":
Bay breeze San Francisco |
| #8908, aired 2023-07-05 | U.S. CITY OF THE BOOK $800: "A Confederacy of Dunces":
not so easy for the Big Guy New Orleans |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $400: "How to Find a Ballplayer" & "Anatomy of an Undervalued Pitcher" are chapters in this 2003 bestseller Moneyball |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $1200: "Pistol: The Life of" this man calls him a "fresh-faced, sad-eyed wizard cradling a grainy, leather orb" Pete Maravich |
| #8907, aired 2023-07-04 | LET'S GO TO THE SPORTS BOOK $2000: "The night before I met Jimmy Connors... at Wimbledon in the summer of 1975, I went to bed & slept soundly", he says in "Days of Grace" Arthur Ashe |
| #8905, aired 2023-06-30 | THE SAILOR MAN $1,100 (Daily Double): Lord Drinian is captain of this title vessel in a book by C.S. Lewis the Dawn Treader |
| #8904, aired 2023-06-29 | PRIDE OF THE MUSEUM $600: Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art holds Sultan Jaqmaq's gilded copy of this book, with explanations of the verses the Quran |
| #8902, aired 2023-06-27 | SOME THOUGHTS ON THE BOOK $400: An A.A. rating; the sequel's in the "Corner"; hold up, the bear also goes "under the name of Sanders"? Winnie-the-Pooh |
| #8900, aired 2023-06-23 | QUI"ZZ"ICAL $2000: Mentioned in the book of Daniel as the son of Nebuchadnezzar, this ruler was killed during the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C. Belshazzar |
| #8897, aired 2023-06-20 | CHAPTER & VERSE $400: Each book except the last in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" has this many chapters... unfortunately 13 |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $800: The subtitle of this nonfiction work by a Catholic sister is "An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States" Dead Man Walking |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $1200: "Enormous Smallness" is Matthew Burgess' portrait of this poet who often used no uppercase letters e.e. cummings |
| #8895, aired 2023-06-16 | OPPOSITIONAL BOOK TITLES $2000: A page from this visionary English poet & artist's "The Marriage of Heaven & Hell" from around 1790 is seen here William Blake |
| #8894, aired 2023-06-15 | 21st CENTURY HORROR NOVELS $600: The Scooby gang was often accused of being these, the title of a book by Edgar Cantero about 4 teens with a telepathic pooch meddling kids |
| #8893, aired 2023-06-14 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $600: Book 3 of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan novels is "The Cardinal of" this place The Cardinal of the Kremlin |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DEEP BOOKS $1200: A term for the alternative history genre, or a book of "Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" What If? |
| #8892, aired 2023-06-13 | DEEP BOOKS $1600: Ken Jennings' "100 Places to See After You Die" includes this hall of the slain that has the Valkyries as barmaids Valhalla |
| #8889, aired 2023-06-08 | LITERATURE $1200: In the 1920s "Along the Road" was a travel book by this writer; he'd write about a different kind of trip in "The Doors of Perception" Huxley |
| #8888, aired 2023-06-07 | A '90s KID $2000: Contestants of a certain age may recall this book series by K.A. Applegate with teens shapeshifting into beasts Animorphs |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: At the start of this Hemingway book, Santiago hasn't caught a fish in a long time; it ends with his fish being eaten by sharks The Old Man and the Sea |
| #8886, aired 2023-06-05 | CLASSIC CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eric Carle is perhaps best remembered for this book about a week in the life of a ravenous larva The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $400: "A Clash of Kings" A Song of Ice and Fire |
| #8884, aired 2023-06-01 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $800: "The Sea of Monsters" the Percy Jackson books |
| #8880, aired 2023-05-26 | THAT BOOK CHARACTER DOES THINGS $1600: Likes being a sailor or foretopman, depending on the edition; kills Claggart; doesn't make it to the end of the story Billy Budd |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $800: Sadly for Greg Heffley, his older brother Rodrick "Rules" in the second book in this kid lit series Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #8878, aired 2023-05-24 | THESE BROS ARE LIT $1600: It turns out about as well for Caleb & Aron in this 1952 novel as it did for Cain & Abel in an earlier book East of Eden |
| #8877, aired 2023-05-23 | ANIMALS IN LITERATURE $600: In a book by Paul Gallico, Thomasina is one of these pets that channels the Egyptian goddess Bastet & saves her owner's life a cat |
| #17, aired 2023-05-23 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $2000: Numeric sci-fi book about a metaverse, a singular evening of passion & the controversial right to use deadly force as self-defense Ready Player One-night stand your ground |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $400: (John Green presents the clue.) I co-created Crash Course, which offers dozens of free educational videos on YouTube, & in one video titled "Don't Reanimate Corpses!", I talk about the Romantic movement in English lit & this novel in particular Frankenstein |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $600: The author of "Roots", Alex Haley, earlier collaborated on the autobiography of this activist Malcolm X |
| #8876, aired 2023-05-22 | BOOK-POURRI $800: An almost 12-year-old girl, last name Simon, is mentioned in the title of this classic by Judy Blume Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret |
| #16, aired 2023-05-22 | FAMOUS FOLKS $400: This creator & producer of "Scandal" also wrote the book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes |
| #8875, aired 2023-05-19 | MULTIPLE MEANINGS $600: Of bell, book, or candle, the one that in slang means "move fast" book |
| #13, aired 2023-05-17 | FAMOUS PAIRS $200: A crossword puzzle book was the first offering from the publishing house of this pair, one of whom was singer Carly's father Simon & Schuster |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | TWISTS $800: The titular "Book of Eli" turns out to be a Bible, but it's basically useless to Gary Oldman because it's in this format braille |
| #8872, aired 2023-05-16 | DON'T GO ANYWHERE $1200: A 2023 book is titled this 2-word aimless activity: "The Radical Power of Killing Time" Hanging Out |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | NONFICTION $600: We "guaranty" a good read with super-biographer Ron Chernow's first book, "The House of" this big name in banking Morgan |
| #11, aired 2023-05-16 | NONFICTION $800: This alliterative phrase for authority over a mission is the title of an Eric Schlosser book that tells of nuclear weapons debacles Command and Control |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | SOUNDS SPOOKY $600: Also a Stephen King book title, this group of workers is the smallest amount possible to successfully fill a shift a skeleton crew |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | ORDINAL NOVELS $600: Dribble the pet turtle plays a role in this 1972 young adult book of "Tales" Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing |
| #8871, aired 2023-05-15 | WATCHING THE DETECTIVES $1600: This actor & husband of Ruby Dee directed "Cotton Comes to Harlem", based on a Chester Himes book featuring detective Grave Digger Jones Ossie Davis |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | ESSAYS $400: A book of essays about the "Black Panther" film & its cultural impact is called "Why" this fictional country "Matters" Wakanda |
| #10, aired 2023-05-15 | WHAT A LITERARY CHARACTER! $2,000 (Daily Double): At the end of a Thomas Pynchon book, Oedipa Maas awaits the bidding on a stamp collection with this auction number lot 49 |
| #9, aired 2023-05-15 | CHESS, MASTERS $2000: (Jennifer Shahade delivers the clue.) My book "Chess Queens" tells the story of the game's female pioneers, like this trio of stereotype-shattering sisters whose youngest, Judit, became both the world's youngest grandmaster & the first woman to be ranked among the world's top 10 players the Polgárs (the Polgár sisters) |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | JOHNNY GILBERT'S MUSICAL THEATER AUDITION $400: "Don't worry, little buddy, know this much is true/ Tomorrow is a latter day & I am here for you" The Book of Mormon |
| #7, aired 2023-05-12 | MEDIEVAL LITERATURE $1200: Created circa 800 & also called the Book of Columba, this illuminated manuscript illustrates the Gospels in Latin the Book of Kells |
| #6, aired 2023-05-10 | THE MALE GAZE $800: "Blue-Eyed Cool" is the subtitle of a book featuring photos of this legendary actor known for his piercing blue eyes Paul Newman |
| #3, aired 2023-05-09 | BIBLICAL PLACES $2000: John wrote the book of Revelation while he was in the isle that is called this, depicted here Patmos |
| #8866, aired 2023-05-08 | CHILDREN'S LIT $200: This bear who first appeared in a 1958 book was part of many people's tributes to the late Queen Elizabeth II Paddington |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | FROM THE ARABIC $400: The head of an Arab family, this word gained popularity in the U.S. due to a 1919 book & a Rudolph Valentino film sheik |
| #2, aired 2023-05-08 | RELIGION $2000: In slang, "a whole" this means a long story, but in the Hebrew Bible, it's a scroll or the book of Esther megillah |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | NONFICTION $400: Natalie Portman began this 5-letter lifestyle after reading "Eating Animals" & narrated the documentary version of the book vegan |
| #8861, aired 2023-05-01 | DOCTOR: WHO? $800: His "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" came out in 1946; "Common Sense" left the title in later editions Dr. Spock |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1,000 (Daily Double): "Whenever there is danger my heart begins to beat fast", says this character in a 1900 book the Cowardly Lion |
| #8860, aired 2023-04-28 | LITERARY LIONS $1200: "We had many great adventures with lions", Isak Dinesen remembered in this book Out of Africa |
| #8856, aired 2023-04-24 | AMERICAN LIT $400: An article in the New York Times about the gruesome murder of 4 in Kansas inspired Truman Capote to write this book In Cold Blood |
| #8854, aired 2023-04-20 | LITERARY FRUIT STAND $1000: Despite the title of Sandra Cisneros' beloved novel, there is no street of this name in Chicago (avenue, yes) Mango Street |
| #8852, aired 2023-04-18 | DEFINITIONS FROM THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY $2000: Early in the book, under "AB":
"to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another" abscond |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $400: Stephen Dando-Collins examined "The Great Fire of Rome: The Fall of the Emperor" him "and His City" Nero |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $800: "Ovid's Causes" by K. Sara Myers is a study of this poem of many mythic transformations Metamorphoses |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | GERMAN LITERATURE $1200: Cornelia Funke sold millions of a trilogy beginning with this book & continuing with "Inkspell" & "Inkdeath" Inkheart |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $1200: Tom Holland (not the actor) covered "The Last Years of the Roman Republic" in a book named for this river Caesar crossed the Rubicon |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $2000: This 4-letter abbreviation of a Roman slogan is the title of Mary Beard's bestselling history of ancient Rome SPQR |
| #8849, aired 2023-04-13 | THE BOOK OF ROMANS $3,000 (Daily Double): Hermann Broch wrote a novel titled "The Death of" this greatest Roman epic poet Virgil |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | BAD BOYS IN BOOKS $200: Archie Costello leads the Vigils, a gang of school kids enforcing the sale of this title sweet treat in a Robert Cormier "War" novel chocolate |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | I GOT THE RECEIPTS $800: Symbolically hot off the press, this book--one of roughly 50 left in the world--was auctioned in 1987 for $5.39 million a Gutenberg Bible |
| #8847, aired 2023-04-11 | ADAPTERS $1600: Neil Druckmann, creator of this video game partly inspired by the book "The World Without Us", helped adapt it for HBO in 2023 The Last of Us |
| #8843, aired 2023-04-05 | BIBLE BOOKS BY QUOTES $1000: "Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand" the Book of Daniel |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | "ODD"s & "END"s $400: A section at the end of a book, or a vestigial body part an appendix |
| #8842, aired 2023-04-04 | TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN $800: This group of comic book superheroes got their powers from radioactive ooze the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $1200: This Harlem poet wrote a children's book called "The First Book of Jazz" (Langston) Hughes |
| #8841, aired 2023-04-03 | THEIR LESSER-KNOWN BOOKS $2000: The imaginary country Boca Grande figures in "A Book of Common Prayer" by this late Californian better known for her essays (Joan) Didion |
| #8840, aired 2023-03-31 | ANCIENT VIPs $2,000 (Daily Double): The Hanging Gardens was one of many building projects credited to this king of Babylon who also appears in the book of Daniel Nebuchadnezzar |
| #8838, aired 2023-03-29 | WRITERS & POETS $600: Consecutive chapters in this book are "The Minister's Vigil" & "Another View of Hester" The Scarlet Letter |
| #8836, aired 2023-03-27 | THE BIBLE $800: The First Book of Samuel recounts the encounter between these 2, big Philistine & smaller Israelite, in the valley of Elah David & Goliath |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THAT'S COLD! $400: This word precedes "hare" in the name of the animal shown, or "Dreams" in the title of Barry Lopez's book that mentions the critter Arctic |
| #8834, aired 2023-03-23 | THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY $1200: (Amor Towles presents the clue.) Near the end of the book, Emmett & Billy finally set out for the Western Terminus of the highway, which is still at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in this city San Francisco |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | HANS, SOLO $400: International Children's Book Day is celebrated on or around April 2, the birthday of this author Hans Christian Andersen |
| #8833, aired 2023-03-22 | RESILIENCE $1600: Resilience is in the subtitle of this Laura Hillenbrand book about Olympian, airman & P.O.W. Louis Zamperini Unbroken |
| #8828, aired 2023-03-15 | LITERARY VILLAINS $400: In a Dodie Smith children's book, this evil heiress wants to turn several dozens of cute li'l furballs into a fur coat Cruella de Vil |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | 11-LETTER WORDS $200: It's a book collector or just a lover of books bibliophile |
| #8827, aired 2023-03-14 | DISEASES $1600: Avril Lavigne's song "Head Above Water" & Meghan O'Rourke's book "The Invisible Kingdom" are by sufferers of this tick-borne disease Lyme disease |
| #8825, aired 2023-03-10 | LITERARY BEFORE & AFTER $2000: James Joyce's last book becomes a WHAM! song whose first word is "Jitterbug" Finnegans Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $400: In the full title of a sequel, this is followed by "& What Alice Found There" Through the Looking-Glass |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $800: "Closing Time" is Joseph Heller's sequel to this satirical novel about the absurdities of war Catch-22 |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | BOOK SEQUELS $1000: This seemingly Utopian land is the title of an 1872 Samuel Butler work, which he "Revisited" in a 1901 sequel Erewhon |
| #8821, aired 2023-03-06 | HOW OFTEN DOES IT HAPPEN? $1000: A jubilee year as recounted in the book of Leviticus in the Bible every 50 years |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $1200: 1972's Nebula for Best Novel was "The Gods Themselves"; it was written by this prolific "master of science fiction" Asimov |
| #8818, aired 2023-03-01 | GIVE THAT BOOK A PRIZE! $2000: The National Book Award decided they "Better Call" this author, a winner for "Herzog" & "The Adventures of Augie March" (Saul) Bellow |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | ADJECTIVES $600: Stern or stark; it describes an academy in the title of the fifth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" austere |
| #8812, aired 2023-02-21 | TRIOS $5,000 (Daily Double): In Catholicism, bell, book & candle were the 3 things once needed to conduct this rite of exclusion from the sacraments excommunication |
| #8811, aired 2023-02-20 | TIME TO HIT THE LIBRARY $2000: Ashurbanipal, book lover & king of this ancient kingdom ruled from Nineveh, built the world's first known library in the 600s B.C. Assyria |
| #8810, aired 2023-02-17 | COOK, THE BOOKS $400: In 2020 Kelsey Lynch cooked up a book of recipes using popular products & ingredients from this store, TJ's for short Trader Joe's |
| #8809, aired 2023-02-16 | "PLAIN" & "SIMPLE" $2000: 1888's these "from the Hills", Rudyard Kipling's first book of fiction, gives vivid portraits of life in British India Plain Tales |
| #8808, aired 2023-02-15 | LOVE $400: The 3 title elements of this Elizabeth Gilbert book take place in Italy, India & Indonesia Eat, Pray, Love |
| #8805, aired 2023-02-10 | ALL KINDS OF BOOKS $1000: Subtitled "The First War-Path", 1841's "The Deerslayer" was James Fenimore Cooper's last published book of these "Tales" Leatherstocking |
| #8799, aired 2023-02-02 | THE BOOK'S SUPPORTING CHARACTERS $400: Retty Priddle & incredibly helpful for the category Alec d'Urberville Tess of the d'Urbervilles |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $800: This author's "Six Weeks' Tour" in 1814 with Percy tells of Europeans who in acts "hideous to English eyes, kissed each other" Mary Shelley |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $1200: In "A Cook's Tour" this late chef & lover of travel went all over the world "In Search of the Perfect Meal" Bourdain |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | SAINTS & THEIR CITIES $1200: Egyptian martyr whose symbol is a spiked wheel, not a library book, St. Catherine of this city Alexandria |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $1600: 1785's "Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides" recounts James Boswell's trip taken with this author Samuel Johnson |
| #8796, aired 2023-01-30 | OUT ON A BOOK TOUR $2000: The Jason Segel film "The End of the Tour" was an adaptation of a book subtitled "A Road Trip with" this 3-named author David Foster Wallace |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: Gavin Menzies' "1434" says a group from China visited this top Catholic & supplied knowledge that made the renaissance happen the pope |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: The dashing Elmer Ellsworth, the 1st Union officer killed in the Civil War, is brought to life in Adam Goodheart's book about this year 1861 |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: The Hundred Years' War novel "1356" features this heir to the English throne, known for armor not suited for hot, sunny days Edward the Black Prince |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1947: Where Now Begins" naturally takes note of an invention that year by this Russian gun designer Kalashnikov |
| #8793, aired 2023-01-25 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $4,800 (Daily Double): Mark Kurlansky wrote a book titled this year of the Tet Offensive & 2 American assassinations 1968 |
| #8791, aired 2023-01-23 | NOW THAT'S NOVEL $400: The title of this 1950 children's fantasy book concerns an animal, a person & a piece of furniture The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | LEARNING $400: "The Chicago Manual of Style" is online to help you format footnotes & these, from the Greek for "book writing" bibliography |
| #8789, aired 2023-01-19 | LEARNING $800: This author's MasterClass sessions offer a case study of his novel "The Graveyard Book" (Neil) Gaiman |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $200: The title of this Dostoyevsky novel refers to murder & 8 years of hard labor in Siberia Crime and Punishment |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THE BOOK WITH NO PICTURES $500: From bad to worse in this novel: escaping nuclear war, a plane crashes, killing all the adults; the boys form their own society on an island Lord of the Flies |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $600: Somerset Maugham wrote about a guy in love with a waitress named Mildred, & not BDSM, in the misleadingly titled "Of Human" this Bondage |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $1200: No, it's not about where Ken & Barbie live; the title of this trashy novel by Jacqueline Susann refers to uppers & downers, as in pills The Valley of the Dolls |
| #11, aired 2023-01-19 | THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING $1500: Though not about Wheaties, "Breakfast of Champions" by this American is still a very good read Kurt Vonnegut |
| #8787, aired 2023-01-17 | "I" ON ART $800: 19th century artist William West dramatized the book of Exodus in these people "Passing Through the Wilderness" the Israelites |
| #8784, aired 2023-01-12 | YOU'RE MY INSPIRATION $800: In 1921 a Jewish woman named Edith Stein read a book by this woman of Avila & began a journey to sainthood under the same name Teresa |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | GLOOMY AUTHORS $400: In Kuniko Tsurita's book of manga "The Sky Is Blue with a Single Cloud", it's this kind of cloud from a nuclear bomb a mushroom cloud |
| #10, aired 2023-01-12 | OTHER FAMOUS VOLUNTEERS $400: Robert Scott, an ace of the Flying Tigers volunteer Air Force of World War II, wrote a book about his career called "God Is My" this Co-Pilot |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $400: Emma Corrigan unloads all her hidden truths on a stranger in Sophie Kinsella's novel "Can You Keep" one of these a secret |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $1600: One answer to this Russian's 1902 title question "What is to Be Done?" was to form a core group of revolutionaries Lenin |
| #8783, aired 2023-01-11 | QUESTIONABLE BOOK TITLES $2000: "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" was one of the autobiographical works that made this physicist famous way beyond Caltech Feynman |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $400: The Battle of Yonkers is a zombie win in this Max Brooks novel, but humans, do not despair! World War Z |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $800: In "Station" this, "of all of them there... that night, the bartender was the one who survived the longest. He died three weeks later" Station Eleven |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $1600: In the opening of this P.D. James novel, "The last human being to be born on Earth was killed in a pub brawl" The Children of Men |
| #8779, aired 2023-01-05 | THE DOOMSDAY BOOK $2000: This Canadian tells of Snowman, possibly the last human, in her novel "Oryx and Crake" Atwood |
| #9, aired 2023-01-05 | CHAO! $200: With a preface by Pearl Buck, a 1945 book by Buwei Yang Chao taught Americans this 2-verb basic method of Chinese cooking stir frying |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | AMERICAN ART & ARTISTS $1000: Roy Lichtenstein's comic book style paintings include "Blam" & this! of 2 planes in combat, a title reminiscent of a pop music duo Whaam! |
| #8777, aired 2023-01-03 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $3,000 (Daily Double): A type of tax, or to remove material, such as from a book or film excise |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $600: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "The Splendid and the Vile", set during the early days of World War II, takes readers inside Chequers, this prime minister's country home where he figured out how to keep his family & his nation together Churchill |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $800: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) My book "Thunderstruck" examines how in 1910, Dr. Hawley Crippen nearly committed the perfect murder & fled across the Atlantic, only to be captured later that year with the help of this man's invention of wireless telegraphy Marconi |
| #8776, aired 2023-01-02 | HISTORY COMES ALIVE WITH ERIK LARSON $1000: (Erik Larson presents the clue.) Do you know monsters when you see them? My book "In the Garden of Beasts" tells the story of Martha Dodd, daughter of the U.S. ambassador to Nazi Germany & her affair with the first head of this political police organization the gestapo |
| #8774, aired 2022-12-29 | RINGS OF DRAGONS $1600: The apocryphal "Bel & the Dragon", added to this Old Testament book, finds the title guy in a lion's den again Daniel |
| #8771, aired 2022-12-26 | THE OFFICE $400: A platonic female best friend & confidante to a co-worker; it was the title of a 1930 book & movie The Office Wife |
| #8770, aired 2022-12-23 | PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES $800: Stuck with 2 bad options, you're this, the title of a book by trapped climber Aron Ralston between a rock & a hard place |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $400: Anagram fans know Loney M. Setnick's "The Pony Party!" is a feature in the "Autobiography" of this author of "Unfortunate Events" (Lemony) Snicket |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $800: In this novel, Winston is inspired by a copy of "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" 1984 |
| #8769, aired 2022-12-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN THAT BOOK $2000: Hannibal Lecter is found with a copy of "Le grand dictionnaire de cuisine" in this "colorful" novel Red Dragon |
| #8768, aired 2022-12-21 | SUPERLATIVES $800: A book of records came about after a Guinness executive wondered if among game birds, the one he had just missed shooting was this the fastest |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $200: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) Creations that hopefully taste better than they sound were natural for this book with an edible title & a hyphenated main character Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | DR. SEUSS BAKING CHALLENGE $1000: (Tamera Mowry presents the clue.) This book was written the year of the first Earth Day & our creations pay tribute to the natural world The Lorax |
| #8766, aired 2022-12-19 | "IN THE" $2000: The title of this book, published after Hemingway's death, alludes to Bimini & Cuba & inspired a song of the same name Islands in the Stream |
| #8764, aired 2022-12-15 | TABLES, LADDERS & CHAIRS $200: On "Seinfeld", Kramer wrote a book about this kind of table--it's also this kind of book & this kind of table a coffee table |
| #8763, aired 2022-12-14 | INSTRUMENTAL PAST $2000: This Babylonian king in the book of Daniel wanted people to drop to the ground & worship a statue if they heard a dulcimer or harp Nebuchadnezzar |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $200: Keep it on the down low: "Harrius Potter et Camera Secretorum" Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $400: This Carroll royal "had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!"' the Queen of Hearts |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $400: The first in a series by Jeff Kinney:
"Commentarii de Inepto Puero" Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | KIDS' BOOK TITLES IN LATIN $600: Hop to it:
"Fabella de Petro Cuniculo" The Tale of Peter Rabbit |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $800: "The Romanov Empress" details the life of Maria, a Danish princess fated to become the mother of this last Russian czar Czar Nicholas II |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $1200: Alison Weir's "Innocent Traitor" is a historical novel of this teen who had a solid week-&-a-bit run as queen in the 1550s Lady Jane Grey |
| #8757, aired 2022-12-06 | BIG BOOK ROYALTY $2000: The American author of this 1889 book wrote it after reading Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" but Malory didn't include time travel A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
| #8756, aired 2022-12-05 | ANIMALS IN BOOKS $200: In the last line of the book, Dorothy says, "and here is" this pup, "too. And oh, Aunt Em! I'm so glad to be at home again!" Toto |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | BIBLICAL DEMONS, DEVILS & SPIRITS $1600: The Book of Mark describes this follower of Jesus as having had 7 devils cast out of her Mary Magdalene |
| #8754, aired 2022-12-01 | BIBLICAL DEMONS, DEVILS & SPIRITS $4,400 (Daily Double): The Book of Luke recounts that as Passover drew nigh, the spirit of Satan entered this apostle Judas Iscariot |
| #8753, aired 2022-11-30 | MOVIE TITLE FUN $800: The title of this Ron Stallworth book that became a movie has only 2 Ks The Black Klansman |
| #8752, aired 2022-11-29 | CAST UPON THE WATERS $1200: The subtitle of her book about making "The African Queen" is "How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall & Huston & Almost Lost My Mind" Katharine Hepburn |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of this Margaret Wise Brown classic about putting a bunny to bed Goodnight Moon |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $2000: Alliterative title of Richard Wright's book about racism & intellectual awakening in the segregated South Black Boy |
| #8750, aired 2022-11-25 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $5,600 (Daily Double): Pitcher Jim Bouton issued 50 walks in the 1969 season, so 50 times he heard this title of his season diary Ball Four |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | HISTORICAL FICTION $800: Eva preserves the real identities of Jewish children during the Holocaust in Kristin Harmel's "The Book of Lost" these Names |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | CAR ACCESSORIES $800: A travel road kit is sweet, like the one from this beginning-of-the-phone-book organization that's been around since 1902 AAA |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | DISNEY DO-OVERS $400: 1967:
Bruce Reitherman as the voice of Mowgli;
2016:
Neel Sethi as Mowgli The Jungle Book |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | CITIES & TOWNS OF THE BIBLE $400: As mentioned at the start of this book, Pithom & Raamses were 2 treasure cities built by the Israelites for the Egyptian Pharaoh Exodus |
| #8748, aired 2022-11-23 | TRANSLATORS $800: In 2021 Jennifer Croft, translator of Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, said translators' names belong here & she was insisting on it the cover of the book |
| #8745, aired 2022-11-18 | AMERICAN WOMEN $2000: Many of her photos were published in the 1939 book "An American Exodus: A Record of Human Erosion" (Dorothea) Lange |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BETTER CALL SAUL $400: A heroic deliverance of Jabesh-Gilead helped Saul get called to be the first king of Israel in a book named for this prophet Samuel |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $600: A teen who is good with animals & numbers but bad at social situations tries to solve the killing of a neighborhood pet The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8743, aired 2022-11-16 | BEASTLY BOOK TITLES $1000: An extended family of primitive humans adopts 5-year-old Ayla The Clan of the Cave Bear |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $100: Physicist Stephen Hawking penned 1988's "A Brief History of" this--I'll get to it, briefly Time |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THAT BOOK YOU'VE BEEN MEANING TO READ $300: Before I can read the "Edge of Reason" sequel about this plucky, single British woman, I've got to read her "Diary" Bridget Jones |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | MUSICAL THEATER $600: The Tony-winning Best Musical of 2011, it features the songs "Two by Two" & "Joseph Smith American Moses" The Book of Mormon |
| #8, aired 2022-11-13 | THE BIBLE $1000: This 5-letter word refers to the "bread from heaven" eaten by the Israelites as told in the Book of Exodus manna |
| #8739, aired 2022-11-10 | 21st CENTURY BESTSELLERS $800: Jon Krakauer reported "A Story of Violent Faith" in this book, detailing 1984 murders by religious extremists in Utah Under the Banner of Heaven |
| #8736, aired 2022-11-07 | BRIT BITS $2,000 (Daily Double): One of the oldest records at the National Archives in London is this record of William the Conqueror's 1086 survey of England the Domesday Book |
| #7, aired 2022-11-06 | ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS $200: Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis Narnia |
| #8734, aired 2022-11-03 | BIBLICAL PEOPLE $800: Zipporah was the daughter of Jethro the Midianite & the wife of him, a big name in the Book of Exodus Moses |
| #8733, aired 2022-11-02 | YOU LEFT ME $1000: You raptured while I stayed in my airplane seat in chapter 1 of this 1995 book that launched a series Left Behind |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $800: Ancient-astronaut tome "The Gods Never Left Us" has on its title page "Long awaited sequel to" these vehicles "of the Gods" Chariots |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $1200: Possessive title of Louisa May Alcott's sequel to "Little Men" Jo's Boys |
| #8731, aired 2022-10-31 | BOOK SEQUELS $2000: The title of Jack Higgins' sequel to this World War II-set adventure yarn ends "...has flown" The Eagle Has Landed |
| #6, aired 2022-10-30 | WITH AUTHOR-ITY $500: She showed "Sense & Sensibility" by starting that book with "The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex" Austen |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $1200: He criticized Harriet Beecher Stowe & Richard Wright in a book of essays called "Notes of a Native Son" (James) Baldwin |
| #8727, aired 2022-10-25 | ESSAY QUESTIONS $2000: She called a 2003 book of essays "The Opposite of Fate" (Amy) Tan |
| #8724, aired 2022-10-20 | POETS & POETRY $1200: The kids' book "The Sweet and Sour Animal Book" used 26 unpublished poems of this Harlem Renaissance figure Langston Hughes |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | HODGEPOURRIPODGE $800: At age 99 this German-born man, Secretary of State in the 1970s, recently published the book "Leadership" Henry Kissinger |
| #8719, aired 2022-10-13 | PONY TALES $2000: You can't do the category without "The Red Pony", a book of stories by this American Steinbeck |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | THE WAIT OF THE WORLD $400: Folks have awaited the next book by him after 2011's "A Dance with Dragons" but it takes as long as it takes George R.R. Martin |
| #8717, aired 2022-10-11 | SUBTITLED NONFICTION $1000: Yuval Noah Harari gives "A Brief History of Humankind" in this book with a one-word title Sapiens |
| #8716, aired 2022-10-10 | SPORTY BOOKS $800: (I'm Roger Bennett.) My new book, "Gods of Soccer", celebrates 100 stars of the game, like Lionel Messi, Pelé & this American who won 2 World Cups, 2 Olympic gold medals & scored 158 goals in international play (Mia) Hamm |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | TECHNOLOGY $300: A.I. for short, this was the subject of the first book Amazon ever sold, about computer models of thought artificial intelligence |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | THEY'RE JUST LIKE "US" $600: The name of this Bible book is from the Greek for "a going out" Exodus |
| #3, aired 2022-10-09 | FOOD & DRINK $1200: "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is the 1961 book that launched this chef's career Julia Child |
| #8708, aired 2022-09-28 | NATURALISTS $2000: Maria Sibylla Merian advanced entomology in 1705's book this process "of the Insects of Surinam", which she illustrated metamorphosis |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | POLITICAL WRITING $1600: "The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" is the subtitle of this Doris Kearns Goodwin book about Abe's unusual cabinet Team of Rivals |
| #8707, aired 2022-09-27 | POLITICAL WRITING $2000: A 2018 book goes "Inside the Mind of" this right-wing political daughter, the runner-up for French president in 2017 & 2022 Le Pen |
| #1, aired 2022-09-25 | SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER $300: A short bit of praise from a critic or a fellow author on the cover of a book a blurb |
| #8705, aired 2022-09-23 | BIBLE STUDY $800: "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" is from this book of wise writings Proverbs |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | IN MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY $400: "What gave my book... celebrity, was the success of one of its proposed experiments... for drawing lightning from the clouds" Benjamin Franklin |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: A picture book from 2013 tells of "The Day" these drawing implements "Quit"; blue is tired of only being used on bodies of water Crayons |
| #8704, aired 2022-09-22 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1,200 (Daily Double): A.A. Milne adapted this children's book for the stage & renamed it "Toad of Toad Hall" The Wind in the Willows |
| #8703, aired 2022-09-21 | CROSSWORD CLUES "J" $400: Book of Joshua city
(7 letters) Jericho |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $200: Roald Dahl wrote this book on East 81st Street in New York City, not far from where the journey of the big fruit ends James and the Giant Peach |
| #8701, aired 2022-09-19 | A HUNGER FOR READING $1000: The title eatery of this Douglas Adams book is Milliways, famed for its Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster The Restaurant at the End of the Universe |
| #8699, aired 2022-09-15 | LETTER-PERFECT BOOKS $200: John Sack's 1967 book "M" follows the soldiers of M company during this war the Vietnam War |
| #8697, aired 2022-09-13 | FULL OF HOLES $1600: His children's book "Holes" earned him a 1999 Newbery Medal Louis Sachar |
| #8696, aired 2022-09-12 | WRITERS & THEIR WORKS $4,000 (Daily Double): Like the narrator of "The Little Prince", the book's author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, chose this as his profession pilot |
| #8693, aired 2022-07-27 | FICTION $200: The story "January 1999: Rocket Summer" leads off this Ray Bradbury book of "Chronicles" The Martian Chronicles |
| #8685, aired 2022-07-15 | WORLD OF OPERA $800: Philip Glass' "Akhnaten" begins in Thebes with the passing of Amenhotep III & words sung from this tome Book of the Dead |
| #8680, aired 2022-07-08 | WEATHER WORDS $800: A book about the underworld says Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello died in this type of storm "of lead" a hail |
| #8677, aired 2022-07-05 | ECONOMICS $1600: Book III of a 1776 economic work by this man is "of the Different Progress of Opulence in different Nations" Adam Smith |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: A Bible of sorts for members of the Red Guards, "The Little Red Book" is a collection of his quotations Mao (Tse-tung) |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | "X"s & "O"s $400: A small book to aid priests performing one of these rites is called "Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness" exorcism |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ITALIAN LOANWORDS $1600: It's the text or "book" of an opera or a musical a libretto |
| #8675, aired 2022-07-01 | ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): This word for all kinds of distractions from clear thinking is the title of a book subtitled "A Flaw in Human Judgment" noise |
| #8674, aired 2022-06-30 | FIRST LADY FIRSTS $200: For the audio version of her book "It Takes a Village", she became the first first lady to win a Grammy Clinton |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED $400: Originally it was a book for priests on how to administer the sacraments; today it's a book of operating instructions a manual |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED $800: Debits go on the left side in this book that contains the financial records of a business a ledger |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED $1000: This 4-letter word for an especially weighty scholarly book comes from the Greek for "roll of papyrus" a tome |
| #8669, aired 2022-06-23 | PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY $1200: The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave Charles Dickens |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $200: In a tale of hard luck in Sin City, this word precedes "Las Vegas" Leaving |
| #8668, aired 2022-06-22 | ____ING BOOK TITLES $600: A young adult bestseller that's kind of a twist on "The Breakfast Club": "One of Us is" this Lying |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $400: The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | KIDS' BOOKS $1000: This 2-word title of Chelsea Clinton's book about determined women was coined by Sen. McConnell about Sen. Warren She Persisted |
| #8665, aired 2022-06-17 | HIS WIDOW LIVED ON $800: Until 2020 you could book a tour of this country that included a visit with its first lady Jehan Sadat, widowed in 1981 Egypt |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC LIT $200: "The Jungle Book" contains a story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, one of these animals who protects his human family a mongoose |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | CLASSIC LIT $800: His 1789 book "Songs of Innocence" fittingly includes "The Lamb" Blake |
| #8663, aired 2022-06-15 | THE BRADY BUNCH $200: In 2017 he released his first book, "The TB12 Method: How to Achieve a Lifetime of Sustained Peak Performance" Tom Brady |
| #8662, aired 2022-06-14 | 3 FOR THE SHOW $600: Ming-na Wen, Jennifer Beals & Temuera Morrison, who opens "The Book of" this mysterious title sci-fi guy Boba Fett |
| #8661, aired 2022-06-13 | BOOK TITLE REFERENCES $1,000 (Daily Double): The murder of Linnet Doyle aboard the Karnak, a steamer Death on the Nile |
| #8659, aired 2022-06-09 | BOOK IT! $200: 2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these Bees |
| #8655, aired 2022-06-03 | THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY $1200: Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua Jericho |
| #8653, aired 2022-06-01 | BALLPARK FUN $400: In an unexpected crossover, the green Phanatic supporting this team since 1978 has a kids' book with a "Galapagos Gang" of animals the (Philadelphia) Phillies |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $200: "Shakespeare in 1606" is the subtitle of James Shapiro's book rhymingly titled "The Year of" this great tragic play King Lear |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: A risque work "written" by one of this queen's ladies in waiting, "1601" was first published anonymously by Mark Twain in 1880 Elizabeth I |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: A classic by a fellow Englishman inspired Anthony Burgess to write a book in response whose title is this, one year later 1985 |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: Herman Raucher based his coming-of-age novel about the summer of this year on his own experiences on Nantucket island '42 |
| #8652, aired 2022-05-31 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: "Daybreak-2250 A.D." is by prolific author Alice Mary Norton, better known to sci-fi fans by this first name Andre |
| #8651, aired 2022-05-30 | PUNNY MYSTERY TITLES $200: Book 1 of "An Ice Cream Parlor Mystery": "A Deadly Inside" this Scoop |
| #8650, aired 2022-05-27 | BOOKS ABOUT CELEBS $800: A book about Elizabeth Taylor is subtitled "Shades of" this purple hue violet |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1200: A recent TV adaptation of this 1872 novel has David Tennant as the globe-trotting adventurer trying to win a wager Around the World in Eighty Days |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $1600: This author's "The Hundred Secret Senses" continues her explorations of Chinese-American families (Amy) Tan |
| #8649, aired 2022-05-26 | NUMERICAL BOOK TITLES $2,000 (Daily Double): A strange discovery on the Moon sets off a secret mission to a moon of Saturn in this sci-fi novel 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | IT'S A WORD! IT'S A NAME! $200: Baedeker became a generic word for this kind of book; publisher Karl was one of the first to use stars in his a (travel) guide |
| #8644, aired 2022-05-19 | LIT BITS $600: This book introduced us to the Eloi & Morlocks The Time Machine |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $400: In "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", this easily frightened man rode a horse named Gunpowder Ichabod Crane |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | BEASTLY BOOK CHARACTERS $800: Martin the Warrior in the "Redwall" fantasy series is a heroic one of these rodents a mouse |
| #8643, aired 2022-05-18 | SETTING, THE BROADWAY STAGE $1000: As of 2022, it's the longest-running current show with Northern Uganda as a setting The Book of Mormon |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | POETS $800: It took this poet 5 years to sell 500 copies of his first book, "Prufrock & Other Observations" (T.S.) Eliot |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | IT'S GETTING WINDY $600: "The Cyclone", Chapter One of a beloved book, begins, this girl "lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies" Dorothy (Gale) |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $800: Boccaccio's finest poetry is in this collection of tales told by 10 people fleeing plague-stricken Florence The Decameron |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $1200: A mysterious microorganism from space wipes out most of an Arizona town in this thriller by Michael Crichton The Andromeda Strain |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $1600: A virulent disease targets only women in "The White Plague" by this author of "Dune" Herbert |
| #8641, aired 2022-05-16 | THAT BOOK PLAGUES ME $2000: A flu pandemic leads to the collapse of civilization in this novel by Emily St. John Mandel, later an HBO Max miniseries Station Eleven |
| #8640, aired 2022-05-13 | BRISK LIT $800: Mr. Toad steals a car & goes to prison in this Grahame cracker of a book The Wind in the Willows |
| #8638, aired 2022-05-11 | SCI-FI TRILOGIES $1200: This alphanumeric book series follows up on the "Judgment Day" film, telling more of the story of Skynet & John Connor T2 |
| #8636, aired 2022-05-09 | PREPOSITIONAL LITERATURE $1000: "On the Banks of Plum Creek" is the fourth book in this series about a pioneering family The Little House (on the Prairie series) books |
| #8635, aired 2022-05-06 | HISTORICAL FICTION $400: In her book "Tenderness", Alison MacLeod explores the origins & publication of this author's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" D.H. Lawrence |
| #8632, aired 2022-05-03 | BIBLE BELTS $200: In this Bible book named for songs of praise, "Thou hast smitten all my enemies upon the cheek bone" Psalms |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $200: Before it was "Schindler's List" on film, the book was "Schindler's" this (meaning the one of the covenant) Ark |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $400: About a CIA analyst on the run, "Six Days of the Condor" was reduced to this many days in the movie version Three |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $600: Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires" became this movie about the startup of Facebook The Social Network |
| #8631, aired 2022-05-02 | FROM BOOK TO MOVIE WITH A DIFFERENT TITLE $1000: "The Midwich Cuckoos" inspired this "Damned" 1960 film about children with frightening powers in a small town Village of the Damned |
| #8630, aired 2022-04-29 | FELINES IN FICTION $1600: Mungojerrie & Bustopher Jones are memorable characters in this T.S. Eliot work Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $2000: Of the "dunces" in a 1980 book, this hero says, "I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one" Ignatius J. Reilly |
| #8625, aired 2022-04-22 | WHINE $3,200 (Daily Double): "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!" is the first complaint in this Bible book of complaints Lamentations |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY $800: The sequel to "Lonesome Dove":
"Streets of ____" Laredo |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BOOK TITLE GEOGRAPHY $1000: John le Carre, man of international intrigue:
"The ____ House" The Russia House |
| #8624, aired 2022-04-21 | BIBLICAL DEVOTIONS $5,000 (Daily Double): "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it" is from the 8th chapter of this biblical book the Song of Solomon |
| #8622, aired 2022-04-19 | MY LITERARY CREATIONS $2000: Colonel Aureliano Buendía; a book about the last days of Simón Bolívar Gabriel García Márquez |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | PILLOW TALK $200: From around 1000 A.D., the "Pillow Book" of Sei Shonagon was written by a lady in waiting in this country Japan |
| #8621, aired 2022-04-18 | GEOLOGY $800: Also a section at the back of a book, this word is used for fossils like trilobites that can help identify certain time periods index |
| #8620, aired 2022-04-15 | IN THE ZOOM ROOM $1000: A Bible study group will have a lively discussion of this book that says, "I am Alpha and Omega" twice in its first chapter the Book of Revelation |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | WORDS FROM MYTHOLOGY $200: It's a book of maps an atlas |
| #8619, aired 2022-04-14 | BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS $200: In the Common English Bible, the first 3 words of the first verse of this book are "When God began" Genesis |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $400: A series of instructional books was launched in 1991 with the title this 3-letter computer acronym "for Dummies" DOS |
| #8618, aired 2022-04-13 | BOOK 'EM $600: In 2019 this Irma Rombauer book was fully revised & updated with 600 new recipes the Joy of Cooking |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BOOK PARTS, REIMAGINED $400: A knight in training, or a young person who is basically the caboose of a train at a wedding a page |
| #8611, aired 2022-04-04 | BOOK PARTS, REIMAGINED $800: Kyphosis is also known as hunchback & lordosis, swayback; both are a curvature of this a spine |
| #8604, aired 2022-03-24 | FAST FACT $200: These are the first 3 words in the first book of the King James Bible In the beginning |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | WE READ IT IN THE '80s $400: The republic of Gilead takes the book of Genesis literally in this bestseller from 1985 The Handmaid's Tale |
| #8603, aired 2022-03-23 | IT HAPPENED IN '22 $1200: 1722:
This composer completes his first book of fugues & preludes, known as the "Well-Tempered Clavier" Bach |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $400: This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute Of Mice and Men |
| #8601, aired 2022-03-21 | PICTURE/BOOK $800: A landmark work of the 18th century The Wealth of Nations |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | EASY PEASY $400: The title of this 1970 Jack Nicholson film refers to a book of piano exercises his character practiced as a child Five Easy Pieces |
| #8600, aired 2022-03-18 | BIBLICAL PASSAGES $800: The book of Ezekiel says the gates of this city shall be named after the tribes of Israel Jerusalem |
| #8598, aired 2022-03-16 | BOWL-O-RAMA $800: "If Life is" this, asked a humorous book title by Erma Bombeck, "What Am I Doing in the Pits?" a Bowl of Cherries |
| #8597, aired 2022-03-15 | THE ANCIENT MARINER $400: A 1633 book, "The Strange & Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James", may have inspired this "Ancient Mariner" poet Coleridge |
| #8596, aired 2022-03-14 | THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW $400: In 1976 James Baldwin reviewed this book that "begins in Gambia West Africa in 1750 with the birth of... Kunta Kinte" Roots |
| #8593, aired 2022-03-09 | THE APOLLO PROGRAM $600: On Christmas Eve 1968, the Apollo 8 crew read aloud from this book of the Bible, as it is foundational for not just Christians Genesis |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $600: Tony Hale plays the rich benefactor who recruits a group of gifted orphans to take part in this "Mysterious" society The Mysterious Benedict Society |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby High Fidelity |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $1,000 (Daily Double): A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" inspired this HBO series Boardwalk Empire |
| #8591, aired 2022-03-07 | FROM BOOK TO TV $1000: This 2021 miniseries based on a Beth Macy book goes from big pharma boardrooms to the struggles of opioid addicts Dopesick |
| #8590, aired 2022-03-04 | THE ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE $1000: "The Silver Chair" is the fourth book in the series about this fantasy land Narnia |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $1200: "Don't Panic" is on the cover of this title reference book that says towels are "massively useful" for space travel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| #8588, aired 2022-03-02 | BOOKS WITHIN BOOKS $1600: In a Michael Ende tale, young Bastian steals this title book & reads of Atreyu & the world of Fantastica The Neverending Story |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $200: "'Oh no, he isn't grown up', Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size"'; "he" is also the title of the book Peter Pan |
| #8586, aired 2022-02-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn Sophie's Choice |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $200: Gore Vidal's novel with this title follows the presidential election in the year of the nation's centennial 1876 |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: Whitley Strieber's "2012" is a thriller based on apocalyptic events supposedly predicted by this Mesoamerican people's calendar the Mayans |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $600: This author's novel "3001" is subtitled "The Final Odyssey" (Arthur C.) Clarke |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: Tim Pat Coogan's account of the Easter Rising Rebellion in Ireland has this year for a title 1916 |
| #8584, aired 2022-02-24 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1000: The Maralinga nuclear tests along with the continent's first Olympics are in this: "The Year Australia Welcomed the World" 1956 |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | DIGESTING SOME LITERATURE $400: In a Thomas Harris book, the conductor of the philharmonic could not recall the fare at this doctor's dinner Hannibal Lecter |
| #17, aired 2022-02-22 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $400: Trey Parker & Matt Stone of "South Park" won Tonys for their work on this musical about Elder Price & Elder Cunningham The Book of Mormon |
| #16, aired 2022-02-18 | "YA"S $1600: Sea captains & pirates are "woven" into the fabric of the 1835 book "An Old Sailor's" these tales yarns |
| #8579, aired 2022-02-17 | A MEASURE OF AUTHOR-ITY $1600: His 1854 book began, "When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods" Thoreau |
| #14, aired 2022-02-17 | PLAYING THE PERCENTAGES $1000: The book & movie "The Seven Per-Cent Solution" featured this fictional hero collaborating with Sigmund Freud Sherlock Holmes |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | 3-SYLLABLE WORDS $1000: From Greek for "a general view", it's a brief summary of a book in a few paragraphs synopsis |
| #11, aired 2022-02-16 | CELEBS' RECENT PROJECTS $1200: This model's book of essays, "My Body" Emily Ratajkowski |
| #10, aired 2022-02-15 | I BRAIN RADIO $1000: On "Fresh Air" Michael Pollan discussed his book "How to Change Your Mind" about "The New Science of" these, like psilocybin psychedelics |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1200: "Blood & Iron", a history of Germany 1871-1918, gets its title from a quote by this chancellor who's big in the book Bismarck |
| #8576, aired 2022-02-14 | HISTORY BOOKS $1600: Reversing a phrase from the book of Isaiah, Arno Mayer's history of the state of Israel is titled these "into Swords" Plowshares |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | WEAPONS $800: Hamlet mentions this stone-throwing weapon & the book of Judges says the children of Benjamin included 700 experts in it a sling |
| #8575, aired 2022-02-11 | "S.T." ON THE TV $2000: John Bradley played this "better with a book than a sword" character on "Game of Thrones" Sam Tarly |
| #8, aired 2022-02-11 | IN THEIR EXPERT OPINION $2,000 (Daily Double): Harvard prof Louis Agassiz said the "transmutation theory" of this 1859 book was "untrue", "unscientific" & "mischievous" The Origin of Species |
| #7, aired 2022-02-11 | NOTABLE AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: Published in 1773, her book of poems on various subjects religious & moral contained an endorsement from John Hancock (Phyllis) Wheatley |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $400: In chapter 1 of his book, it's "great fish", 1, him, 0 Jonah |
| #8572, aired 2022-02-08 | A CONFRONTATION OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS $800: He tells Moses, "I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go", but seeing as how that appears in a book called Exodus... Pharaoh |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | BIBLE BOOKS $1000: The book of Tobit is among the works sometimes called this, from Greek for "to hide away" apocryphal |
| #1, aired 2022-02-08 | POETS & POETRY $1200: 1956's "Let Us Compare Mythologies" was the first book of poems by this man more famous for songs like "Hallelujah" (Leonard) Cohen |
| #8570, aired 2022-02-04 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1600: "The Wolf Gift", book 1 in her "Wolf Gift Chronicles", deals with the making of a werewolf, not a vampire Anne Rice |
| #8569, aired 2022-02-03 | MASHED-UP BOOK TITLES $800: "Love in the Time of Solitude" Love in the Time of Cholera & The Hundred Years of Solitude |
| #8568, aired 2022-02-02 | IN MY WORDS $200: In Amanda Yates Garcia's book "Initiated: Memoir of" one of these, she weaves a spell, telling of her magical life a Witch |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | 3 STARS OF THE FILM $400: 2018:
Mahershala Ali, Viggo Mortensen & Linda Cardellini drive the film the Green Book |
| #8567, aired 2022-02-01 | READ IT OR EAT IT? $2000: Just after World War II, a woman learns of a group of book lovers on one of the Channel Islands The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $200 (Daily Double): "Bastogne" was an episode of this war-set miniseries based on Stephen Ambrose's book Band of Brothers |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $200: Neil Patrick Harris was Count Olaf on this series; Patrick Warburton played author Lemony Snicket A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $400: This native of Dorchester, Massachusetts starred as the titular Boston cop in Netflix' "Spenser Confidential" (Mark) Wahlberg |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | FROM BOOK TO TV $800: A Hulu miniseries was based on this John Green novel, with Miles Halter in search of the titular Ms. Young Looking for Alaska |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $1200: Named for a fallen angel, this "Effect" is the title of Philip Zimbardo's book on "How Good People Turn Evil" Lucifer (The Lucifer Effect) |
| #8566, aired 2022-01-31 | PSYCHOLOGY LITERATURE $2000: This man's book "Walden Two" is a fictional account of a society based on his theories of behaviorism B.F. Skinner |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | ALWAYS BROADWAY $200: "Joseph Smith American Moses" is a song in this musical The Book of Mormon |
| #8564, aired 2022-01-27 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $2,000 (Daily Double): The title group discusses "Emma" in Chapter One of this novel by Karen Joy Fowler The Jane Austen Book Club |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | BOOK BINDINGS $400: The Art of
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and Peace War |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | BOOK BINDINGS $1600: The Name of the
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Madder Rose |
| #8563, aired 2022-01-26 | BOOK BINDINGS $2000: The Return of the
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Rat King |
| #8561, aired 2022-01-24 | ROMA LIFE & CULTURE $400: A vardo is a Roma one of these conveyances; Roald Dahl owned one & wrote a book about a boy who lives in one a caravan |
| #8559, aired 2022-01-20 | INTERNATIONAL MEN OF MYSTERY $1600: After publishing his 1555 book of prophecies, he did horoscopes for Catherine de Medici's children Nostradamus |
| #8557, aired 2022-01-18 | I WANT 2 B $400: This word for brief praise on a book cover like "Jillian Turbo-Smythe is a master of suspense!" dates back to 1907 a blurb |
| #8556, aired 2022-01-17 | ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE CHARACTERS $200: In addition to all the evil & crime, this man had time to write the book "The Dynamics of an Asteroid" Moriarty |
| #8555, aired 2022-01-14 | WORDS & PHRASES $1000: This expression, inspired by an event in the Book of Daniel, illustrated here, means "an effort is doomed to fail" the writing is on the wall |
| #8553, aired 2022-01-12 | AUTHORS' NONFICTION $1600: Before writing 1905's "The House of Mirth", she collaborated on "The Decoration of Houses", a book of interior designs Edith Wharton |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $1200: "East of Eden" is a classic by Steinbeck; "Exit to Eden" is a novel she wrote under the pseudonym Anne Rampling Anne Rice |
| #8552, aired 2022-01-11 | BOOK ALIKES $2000: Tom Wolfe was the white-suited author of "The Right Stuff"; Thomas Wolfe wrote the 1940 novel "You Can't" do this Go Home Again |
| #8542, aired 2021-12-28 | 2-WORD BOOK TITLES $1200: This Thackeray book arrived in 1848; the first version of what is now the same-named magazine, 11 years later Vanity Fair |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | NOAHS $400: In addition to giving us his spelling book in 1783, he helped found the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences Noah Webster |
| #8541, aired 2021-12-27 | CLASSIC NOVELS $800: Anna Sewell said the aim of this book was "to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses" Black Beauty |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SOME LAST-MINUTE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING $400: A $200,000 horse of this breed from the American Stud Book--how kind, especially with the $50,000 annual upkeep thrown in a Thoroughbred |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | NOVELS & NOVELISTS $1600: Janie, the 40ish heroine of this book by Zora Neale Hurston, sees her life as a tree with "dawn and doom" in the branches Their Eyes Were Watching God |
| #8540, aired 2021-12-24 | SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN $2000: Drawn to the sea before seeing it by a line of poetry, she became a marine biologist & 1941's "Under the Sea-Wind" was her first book (Rachel) Carson |
| #8539, aired 2021-12-23 | 5,5 $2000: The Dalai Lama wrote a "Little Book" of this spiritual goal of happiness & calm Inner Peace |
| #8535, aired 2021-12-17 | THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND $400: A 2017 book by Ian Dunt has a title many are asking--this 6-letter word: "What the Hell Happens Now?" Brexit |
| #8534, aired 2021-12-16 | SAY YOUR PRAYERS $800: 1662's Act of Uniformity made this Protestant work the standard for prayer in England the Book of Common Prayer |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | PREQUELS & SEQUELS $400: Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch" & "A Lion Among Men" are sequels to this book that inspired a musical Wicked |
| #8533, aired 2021-12-15 | CZECHS $1600: This Czech wrote novels like "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" in exile in France Milan Kundera |
| #8526, aired 2021-12-06 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1200: "The Rose that Grew from Concrete" is a book of poems by this man better known as a rapper Tupac Shakur |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $400: Based on the author's preface to this book, it could have been "The Last of the Wapanachki" The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8525, aired 2021-12-03 | NOVELS $2,400 (Daily Double): This Leon Uris novel portraying Israel's birth is about 10 times longer than the Bible book of the same name Exodus |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | A SWEET READ $200: A Rupi Kaur book of poetry is titled "Milk and" this, often paired in the Bible Honey |
| #8522, aired 2021-11-30 | AWARD-WINNING WOMEN $2000: In 1983 Gloria Naylor won a National Book Award for her first & best known novel, "The Women of" this "Place" Brewster |
| #8518, aired 2021-11-24 | PERIODS OF TIME $200: The period in which a monarch rules; a 2020 book about Plantagenet England is "In" this "of King John" the Reign |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BLUE $400: Until 1969 Project Blue Book investigated these phenomena; of the 12,618 sightings, only 701 have not been identified UFOs |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $1200: Original "Space Odyssey" plus original "Shades of Grey" 2,051 |
| #8517, aired 2021-11-23 | BOOK TITLE MATH $2000: Harrer's Himalayan hiatus times Hawthorne's house parts 49 |
| #8515, aired 2021-11-19 | ESSAYS $400: A book of essays by Joan Didion has this same title as a plain-covered Beatles LP The White Album |
| #8514, aired 2021-11-18 | POETRY COLLECTIONS $800: He wrote many of the poems in "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" for his godchildren Eliot |
| #8513, aired 2021-11-17 | BIBLICAL FIRST NAMES $1000: Zeke is often short for this name of an Old Testament prophet whose book follows Lamentations Ezekiel |
| #8512, aired 2021-11-16 | BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS $600: It's murder! "Minuit dans le jardin du bien et du mal" Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
| #8508, aired 2021-11-10 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $2000: "The Remains of the Day" Ishiguro |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | POTPOURRI $600: The 1921 book "The Witch-Cult in Western Europe" sets 13 as the number of members in this group a coven |
| #8507, aired 2021-11-09 | FIRST NAMES WITH CHARACTER $800: The daughter of Michelle Williams & Heath Ledger is named for this Roald Dahl book Matilda |
| #8504, aired 2021-11-04 | OLD LITERATURE $1600: Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth the Egyptian Book of the Dead |
| #8500, aired 2021-10-29 | MUSICAL TOURING COMPANIES $1600: Latter Day,
Jumamosi The Book of Mormon |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | ANNE RICE $200: Anne Rice set her book "The Feast of all Saints" in this city where she was born & raised New Orleans |
| #8499, aired 2021-10-28 | ANNE RICE $400: "Ramses the Damned" is the subtitle of Anne's book about this title supernatural being the mummy |
| #8497, aired 2021-10-26 | LITERARY JOURNALISM $1000: This Jon Krakauer book says the "unreliability of the human mind at high altitude made the research problematic" Into Thin Air |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $400: Written as a parable, a business classic by Spencer Johnson asks "Who Moved My" this Cheese |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | SPORTS BOOKS $600: "Levels of the Game" is John McPhee's book about one 1968 tennis match between Clark Graebner & this African-American champion Arthur Ashe |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $800: Neurologist Oliver Sacks shared some interesting case histories in "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a" this a Hat |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $1200: "Who I Am" is a candid autobiography by this guitarist/songwriter for The Who Townshend |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $1600: Finally published in its entirety in 2021, "The Man Who Lived Underground" is by this late author of "Native Son" Richard Wright |
| #8494, aired 2021-10-21 | THE BOOK OF WHO $2000: John le Carre received a warm reception & international acclaim with this 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 5 BURROS $600: In a book by Marguerite Henry, Brighty is a burro who roams the high cliffs of this Arizona landmark the Grand Canyon |
| #8492, aired 2021-10-19 | 5 BURROS $800: In the book of Numbers, both an angel & the animal itself ask this man why he's beating up on his donkey Balaam |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | NOW READ THIS! $200: Mia Thermopolis finds out that her dad is the crown prince of Genovia in this book, the first of a series The Princess Diaries |
| #8490, aired 2021-10-15 | DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR $200: I swear by him; he swears by himself in the book of Jeremiah God |
| #8489, aired 2021-10-14 | MURDER, HE WROTE $2,500 (Daily Double): In 1902 this novelist killed Sir Charles Baskerville in book form Arthur Conan Doyle |
| #8485, aired 2021-10-08 | TALES OF HORROR $400: "Horror" is in the title of this book in which the Lutz family learned that, sometimes, buying a murder home isn't worth it The Amityville Horror |
| #8483, aired 2021-10-06 | ____ & ____ $1000: Michael Chabon won a 2001 Pulitzer for his "Amazing Adventures of" this pair of cousins & comic book creators Kavalier & Clay |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $400: In Chapter One of this book, "a great fish" severs a woman's femoral artery, the blood now "a beacon... clear and true" Jaws |
| #8481, aired 2021-10-04 | 4-LETTER BOOK TITLES $1000: It's the original title of Sapphire's novel about Claireece "Precious" Jones Push |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | GERUNDS $200: Julia Child called the book titled "Joy of" this "a fundamental resource" Cooking |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $400: If you're not a fan of long, long fiction, this 1862 Victor Hugo work will make you... what's the word... unhappy? Wretched? Les Misérables |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $1600: There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work Bleak House |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $2000: Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin' Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8480, aired 2021-10-01 | THAT'S A BIG BOOK $6,000 (Daily Double): "Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines Paradise Lost |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $1600: This prolific author's "A Princess of Mars" transported itself to the silver screen as the more masculine "John Carter" Edgar Rice Burroughs |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | JACK $1600: This titan of comic book art collaborated with Stan Lee to create the Fantastic Four & many more (Jack) Kirby |
| #8479, aired 2021-09-30 | FROM BOOK TO RETITLED FILM $2000: "Northern Lights" is the U.K. title of Philip Pullman's book; the film used this title more familiar to American readers The Golden Compass |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | BUSINESS $600: This type of account book listing debts & credits dates back at least to the Renaissance as shown here a ledger |
| #8476, aired 2021-09-27 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITING $1200: He was the first African American to receive a Harvard Ph.D. & his book of essays "The Souls of Black Folk" was published in 1903 (W.E.B.) Du Bois |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: Jane Austen described the title character of this novel as "handsome, clever, and rich... with very little to distress or vex her" Emma |
| #8472, aired 2021-09-21 | PENNY ANTE $800: Pennyworth is the last name of this comic book hero's butler & loyal confidante Batman (Bruce Wayne) |
| #8471, aired 2021-09-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: In "Gub Gub's Book", by the creator of Dr. Dolittle, this type of animal tells of truffles & more pig |
| #8470, aired 2021-09-17 | PEACE $1200: A 2021 picture book commemorates the 50th anniversary of his song, "Peace Train" Cat Stevens |
| #8468, aired 2021-09-15 | ACTION & SUSPENSE NOVELS $5,400 (Daily Double): "Marko Ramius of the Soviet navy was dressed for the Arctic conditions normal to the... submarine base" in this book The Hunt for Red October |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | THINK BIG! $400: As part of a 2017 promotion, a pair of briefs with a 76-foot-wide waistband was made for this Dav Pilkey kids' book character Captain Underpants |
| #8465, aired 2021-08-13 | HELEN, NOT OF TROY $1200: sisterhelen.org is the website of anti-capital punishment nun Helen Prejean, famous for this, her first book Dead Man Walking |
| #8462, aired 2021-08-10 | BOOKS FOR KIDS $600: A baby bird hatches alone & asks a dog, a hen & a kitten the title question of this classic book Are You My Mother? |
| #8459, aired 2021-08-05 | I'M YOUR HUCKLEBERRY $400: This character was introduced in a classic 1876 novel & got his own book 8 years later Huckleberry Finn |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | LITERARY TITLE CHARACTERS $800: Chingachgook & his son Uncas are this James Fenimore Cooper book title The Last of the Mohicans |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THE 50 U.S. STATES $1600: The third book Bob Woodward wrote about the Bush administration's Iraq War failings is called "State of" this Denial |
| #8453, aired 2021-07-28 | CHILDREN IN THE BIBLE $400: Chapter 22 of this book of wisdom says that if you start children off on the right path, even when old, they will not stray from it Proverbs |
| #8448, aired 2021-07-21 | BIRDING $1600: In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders a field guide |
| #8443, aired 2021-07-14 | MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE $1600: The "Bride's Book of Etiquette" suggests "Canon In D" by this 17th century German as the party heads down the aisle Pachelbel |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $400: The end of this musical sees the creation of "The Book of Arnold" The Book of Mormon |
| #8442, aired 2021-07-13 | FICTIONAL BOOKS $1600: You can't book a room at this title Wes Anderson establishment, nor read the novel of the same title that appears in the film The Grand Budapest Hotel |
| #8435, aired 2021-07-02 | THE ART OF THE LIMERICK $800: In Ranjit Bolt's book "A Lion Was Learning to" do this, the title Limerick continues, "in the Alps just outside Chamonix" Ski |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $200: Timothy Winegard's 2019 book about this insect is subtitled "A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator" the mosquito |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $400: In her book about this punctuation mark, Cecelia Watson wrote, "Big ideas are distilled down to a few winking drops of ink" the semicolon |
| #8434, aired 2021-07-01 | NONFICTION $1,000 (Daily Double): This author's first major book was 1742's "A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist" Edmond Hoyle |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $200: "Mockingbird" is Charles Shields' portrait of this author & the creation of her most acclaimed work Harper Lee |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $600: Beatrix Potter wrote & illustrated "The Tale of" this puddle-duck Jemima |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $800: Henry James told a tale of a dying heiress in "The Wings of" this bird the Dove |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | BIRDS IN BOOK TITLES $1000: In "A Feast of Crows" by George R.R. Martin, this family of Jaime & Cersei rules from the iron throne Lannister |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | STAR-SPANGLED BANTER $1200: In a 1980 book he said, "Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of chaos" Sagan |
| #8431, aired 2021-06-28 | NOVELLAS $1600: Melville House Press offers classic novellas in book form, & of course included the tale of this title sailor by Melville himself Billy Budd |
| #8430, aired 2021-06-25 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1000: Elsie Clews Parsons covered the Zuni & Hopi in her landmark book on the religion of these peoples of Arizona & New Mexico the Pueblo |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE $400: Jim Harrison's
"Legends of the ____" Fall |
| #8429, aired 2021-06-24 | 'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE $800: Herman Raucher's
"____ of '42" Summer |
| #8427, aired 2021-06-22 | IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION $200: "The Tributes" is part I of this 2008 book by Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games |
| #8424, aired 2021-06-17 | DID YOU READ... $800: ... About Daphne working with the Duke of Hastings in "The Duke and I", the first in this book series, now a Netflix fave the Bridgerton series |
| #8421, aired 2021-06-14 | TIME LINES $1,500 (Daily Double): This book of the Bible mentions "a time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance" Ecclesiastes |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | 15 LOVE $200: In a 2003 book this 15-year-old could have "counted the freckles on" Cho Chang's nose as she steals a kiss from him Harry Potter |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1200: O. Henry called the fictional Central American country of Anchuria this 2-word entity, referring to an export a banana republic |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BOOK-BORNE WORDS & PHRASES $1600: The first use of "ingenue" in English described this not-quite-ingenue in Thackeray's "Vanity Fair" Becky Sharp |
| #8419, aired 2021-06-10 | BIBLICAL BROADWAY $1600: Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon" is based on this "occupational" book of the Old Testament Judges |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $400: For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele A Farewell to Arms |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $800: E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel A Passage to India |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title Remembrance of Things Past |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $1200: "Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas The Dying of the Light |
| #8418, aired 2021-06-09 | POETIC BOOK TITLES $2000: The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture The Waste Land |
| #8417, aired 2021-06-08 | A LITERATURE SAMPLER $2000: This book about surviving the great recession of 2008 is the basis for a 2020 film starring Frances McDormand Nomadland |
| #8413, aired 2021-06-02 | IT'S ALL ABOUT HER $2,000 (Daily Double): "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is less about Alice & more about this woman, her life partner who wrote the book Gertrude Stein |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | QUOTATIONS $400: The Book of Proverbs provided a play & movie title with "he that troubleth his own house shall inherit" this the wind |
| #8412, aired 2021-06-01 | SCIENTISTS $800: Avi Loeb thinks a space object seen in 2017 & artistically depicted here comes from this 16-letter type of being, the title of his book extraterrestrial |
| #8410, aired 2021-05-28 | THE 18th CENTURY $800: Players of this forerunner of bridge could consult a popular 1742 rule book whist |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | PREFIXES $1000: It's a little confusing, but the fifth book of the Bible begins with this prefix meaning "second" deutero |
| #8405, aired 2021-05-21 | CORPORATE JARGON $1600: Sheryl Sandberg used this phrase as a book title; others use it to mean "give the appearance of seeming interested" lean in |
| #8402, aired 2021-05-18 | SOCIOLOGY $200: A 2015 book found 1 1/2 million families living on "$2.00 a" this length of time per person--it's not an hour a day |
| #8395, aired 2021-05-07 | JUST GOT REAL $800: When the Book of Common Prayer was first issued in 1549, this faith's parting from Roman Catholic tradition was realized Anglican |
| #8394, aired 2021-05-06 | 1920s GOOD READS $1200: Illustrated by the author, the voyages of this physician with animal pals, won a Newbery Medal as Most Distinguished Children's Book Dr. Dolittle |
| #8392, aired 2021-05-04 | READING MATERIAL $1000: A version of the Book of the Dead, including a hymn to Ra, is called the this plant material "of Ani" papyrus |
| #8391, aired 2021-05-03 | VICE $1000: The book "Aristocratic Vice" examines the vices of the 18th century English nobility, including these "affairs of honor" a duel |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SACRED BOOKS $1600: Compiled from oral Japanese, the Kojiki, or "records of ancient matters", is an important source book of this religion Shinto(ism) |
| #8390, aired 2021-04-30 | SACRED BOOKS $2000: It says, "I, Nephi, proceed to give an account upon these plates of my proceedings, and my reign and ministry" the Book of Mormon |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | MODERN HEBREW $400: When Eliezer Ben-Yehuda revived spoken Hebrew from a 1,700-year sleep, his 1st new word was milon, this type of book he compiled a dictionary |
| #8388, aired 2021-04-28 | AUTHORS NOT GOING PLACES $2000: "The Lost City of Z" is about South America explorer Percy Fawcett, who helped Arthur Conan Doyle WFH this "Lost" book The Lost World |
| #8386, aired 2021-04-26 | STARTS WITH 3 CONSONANTS $400: "What the Night Knows" is part of a "3-Book" this genre "Collection" from Dean Koontz the Thriller |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $800: Stella Gibbons parodied the rural gloom of Thomas Hardy in her best-loved book, "Cold Comfort" this place Farm |
| #8385, aired 2021-04-23 | AUTHORS $2000: This Brazilian author of "The Alchemist" deleted a children's book he was writing with Kobe Bryant after Kobe's tragic death (Paulo) Coelho |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $400: Faulkner's novel "Absalom, Absalom!" bears the name of a tragically rebellious offspring of this biblical king David |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $600: Cain ended up living in Nod, which Genesis says is here, giving this Steinbeck novel its title East of Eden |
| #8378, aired 2021-04-14 | BIBLICALLY INSPIRED BOOK TITLES $1,000 (Daily Double): Translating the name of a Philistine god mentioned in 2 Kings gives this 1954 novel about castaways its title Lord of the Flies |
| #8377, aired 2021-04-13 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $2000: After Leopold Bloom walks the streets of Dublin in this book, he returns home to his unfaithful wife Molly Ulysses |
| #8376, aired 2021-04-12 | BRITISH HISTORY $2000: This 1086 survey recorded 650,000 oxen, 13,000 villages & an estimated population of 1.8 million the Domesday Book |
| #8375, aired 2021-04-09 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $800: "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8373, aired 2021-04-07 | HISPANIC AMERICANS $800: Oscar Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American to win a fiction Pulitzer, for the book called these fellows "Play Songs of Love" The Mambo Kings |
| #8370, aired 2021-04-02 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE $1200: In the Percy Jackson book series, his half brother Tyson is one of these mythical creatures Cyclops |
| #8368, aired 2021-03-31 | FUNNY BOOKS $600: This actress and stand-up comedienne is also the author of the book "The Last Black Unicorn" Tiffany Haddish |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $400: The name of this book of the Pentateuch has 5 syllables Deuteronomy |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | KIPLING CHARACTERS $400: Brave 6-year-old Percival William Williams is known as "Wee" this, from a book of nursery rhymes Willie (Wee Willie Winkie) |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $2000: The last book of the Old Testament is named for this prophet whose name means "my messenger" Malachi |
| #8367, aired 2021-03-30 | THE OLD TESTAMENT $5,000 (Daily Double): This book is aptly titled--it consists of 5 chapters of woe over the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Lamentations |
| #8364, aired 2021-03-25 | VOCABULARY $800: The Bible, including the book of Proverbs, gives us "gird one's" these loins |
| #8363, aired 2021-03-24 | THE PROBLEM IS... $800: In this book, Robert Langdon says, "I've never heard of a cryptex"; no wonder--Dan Brown made it up The Da Vinci Code |
| #8362, aired 2021-03-23 | SPACE-Y SAYINGS $200: "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from" here, like the title of John Gray's book Venus |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | WORDS IN BOOKS $400: This word for someone with a need to toil all the time was popularized in the title of a 1971 book about addiction workaholic |
| #8361, aired 2021-03-22 | 20th CENTURY ART & ARTISTS $1600: A book called "The Magic Mirror of" this Dutch artist gives insight into how he created those optical effects M.C. Escher |
| #8355, aired 2021-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Simple wooden furniture for lunch in a park that outlines what's contained in a book a picnic table of contents |
| #8352, aired 2021-03-09 | ____ OF ____ $1600: It's thought that monks on the isle of Iona produced this illuminated manuscript of the 4 gospels the Book of Kells |
| #8350, aired 2021-03-05 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as "an ivory ball" Heart of Darkness |
| #8349, aired 2021-03-04 | BIBLE BABES $400: "Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings", says this Old Testament book of sacred songs Psalms |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $800: A bestseller ensued when Robert M. Pirsig used this transport for a 1968 journey with his son, doing his own maintenance a motorcycle |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | AUTHORS' ROAD TRIPS $1600: A 2019 book tells the true tale of a 1927 road trip by this woman & Langston Hughes, including a Bessie Smith show in Macon Zora Neale Hurston |
| #8346, aired 2021-03-01 | BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS $2000: "Hail to you gods... on that day of the great reckoning, behold me, I have come to you" is from this Ancient Egyptian text the Book of the Dead |
| #8345, aired 2021-02-26 | NUMBERS $800: Found in the last book of the Bible, it was a common telephone prefix in Reeves, La. but residents got the option to change it 666 |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $400: The bestseller "Midnight in" this place tells of a 1986 disaster in the Soviet Union Chernobyl |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THERE'S A BOOK IN MY MOVIE $1000: Naturally, "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" is at the heart of this film with Amy Adams & Meryl Streep Julie & Julia |
| #8341, aired 2021-02-22 | THROWING THE BOOK AT YOU $2000: "The Prime of" Muriel Spark's writing was this novel, penned in less than a month, according to the author The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie |
| #8339, aired 2021-02-18 | TYPES OF NARRATIVE LITERATURE $400: The story of the Good Samaritan in the Bible's book of Luke is one of these simple narratives with a moral or religious purpose a parable |
| #8337, aired 2021-02-16 | LITERATURE $2000: This French-titled book about the round table knights begins, "It befell in the days of Uther Pendragon..." Le Morte d'Arthur |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $1600: Mary Anne Spier is the secretary of this title book series group of girls who watch over other kids The Baby-Sitters Club |
| #8335, aired 2021-02-12 | GIRL $2000: Selina Boyce is the heroine of the Brooklyn-set book called "Brown Girl," these buildings brownstones |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $400: Stephen Ambrose's "D-Day, ____ 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II" June |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | NONFICTION $400: A surprise 2020 bestseller, "The Book of" these fish admits, "they're slimy and slithery, look like snakes..." eels |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $800: Tom Clancy's "The Hunt for Red ____" October |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $1200: Elizabeth von Arnim's "The Enchanted ____" April |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $1600: Knebel & Bailey's political thriller
"Seven Days in ____" May |
| #8332, aired 2021-02-09 | MONTH OF THE BOOK $2000: Saul Bellow's "The Adventures of Augie ____" March |
| #8331, aired 2021-02-08 | BEFORE & AFTER GOES TO THE MOVIES $400: Renee Zellweger's original journal entry meets up with a film about Greg Heffley based on a popular children's book series Bridget Jones's Diary of a Wimpy Kid |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | PLACES IN THE GOOD BOOK $200: Jesus walked on this body of water also called Kinnereth & Gennesaret the Sea of Galilee |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | PLACES IN THE GOOD BOOK $400: The Gospel of John says this village is where Jesus not only performed a wedding miracle but healed a man far off in Capernaum Cana |
| #8325, aired 2021-01-29 | PLACES IN THE GOOD BOOK $800: God tells Jonah to preach against the people of this city; at first he flees, but later he gets into denouncing them Nineveh |
| #8320, aired 2021-01-22 | LIT-POURRI $2000: Ken Follett says his most popular book is this novel about the building of a cathedral in 12th century England The Pillars of the Earth |
| #8319, aired 2021-01-21 | BOOKS FOR YOUNG ADULTS $400: A spring of magical water makes this family "Everlasting" in a book that asks, "What if you could live forever?" Tuck |
| #8318, aired 2021-01-20 | POLY ESTHER $1600: The male hero of the biblical book of Esther is this uncle of Esther's whose name comes from the Babylonian god Marduk Mordecai |
| #8316, aired 2021-01-18 | THE FICTIONAL HOUSEWIVES OF NEW YORK $800: In a 1945 E.B. White kids' book, Eleanor is the mom of this tiny title character who can crawl inside a piano to fix keys Stuart Little |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL $800: You can actually book a dinner in this part of London's St. Paul's Cathedral where many notables have been laid to rest the crypt |
| #8314, aired 2021-01-14 | COMMUNICATION $1000: It is the interpretive body part of an orchestra conductor; an 1889 book says it has 100 "shades of delicate expression " his or her left hand |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $1200: Terry Pratchett wrote 41 novels about this flat, circular place, set upon the back of 4 elephants upon a giant turtle Discworld |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $1600: "Redhead By the Side of the Road" is a 2020 novel by this author of "The Accidental Tourist" (Anne) Tyler |
| #8313, aired 2021-01-13 | BOOK 'EM $2000: Norman Mailer was just 25 when he published this classic novel of World War II The Naked and the Dead |
| #8312, aired 2021-01-12 | INSANE CLOWN POSSE $1600: John Leguizamo plays a demon from hell who takes the slightly less creepy form of a clown in this 5-letter comic book movie Spawn |
| #8311, aired 2021-01-11 | NONFICTION $400: One chapter in this book by Stephen Hawking is "The Origin & Fate of the Universe" A Brief History of Time |
| #8305, aired 2020-12-18 | 4-LETTER FILMS $1600: Directed by Scorsese, this book-based film tells of an orphan who lives in a Paris train station & maintains its clocks Hugo |
| #8304, aired 2020-12-17 | FIRST WORDS $1200: The first line of an Old Testament book is "The proverbs of" him, "the son of David, king of Israel" Solomon |
| #8303, aired 2020-12-16 | ENDING $400: At the end of the book "The Maltese Falcon", this private eye realizes that Brigid is a murderer & turns her in to the police Sam Spade |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $200: Fences of this wire invented for cattle are a constant in the internment camp novel "When the Emperor was Divine" barbed wire |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $400: Early on in a Twain work, Tom Sawyer must complete this "colorful" painting task on "thirty yards of board fence" whitewashing |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | MARCO POLO SLEPT HERE $600: Back in Italy, Marco Polo dictated his book while jailed in this city-state, later the birthplace of another famous explorer--Columbus Genoa |
| #8302, aired 2020-12-15 | BOOK BARRIERS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Melville scribe spends time staring at "dead-walls", then at the high walls of prison Bartleby (the Scrivener) |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $200: Dorothy,
Aunt Em The Wizard of Oz |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $400: Stephen Dedalus,
Molly Bloom Ulysses |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $600: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) This writer once said his first book wasn’t an important novel, but it ranks among the great ones, & its line, “I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me” is among the most haunting of the 20th century Ralph Ellison |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $800: Ponyboy Curtis,
Johnny Cade,
Cherry Valance The Outsiders |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $1000: Lucie Manette,
Madame Defarge A Tale of Two Cities |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | PEOPLE OF THE BOOK $2,200 (Daily Double): John Yossarian &
Milo Minderbinder Catch-22 |
| #8296, aired 2020-12-07 | OXFORD'S VERY SHORT INTRODUCTIONS $800: The book on this scientific concept calls it "the weakest of nature's four fundamental forces" gravity |
| #8295, aired 2020-12-04 | 19th CENTURY LITERATURE $2000: His first book of poems, "The Black Riders" was published in 1895, the same year as his "Red Badge of Courage" (Stephen) Crane |
| #8293, aired 2020-12-02 | EARLY AMERICAN HISTORY $400: The first book printed in what's now the United States was a 1640 translation from the Hebrew of the book of these songs Psalms |
| #8290, aired 2020-11-27 | PALINDROMES $400: In 2019 Kelley Blue Book named this Honda coupe Best Buy of the Year among compact cars a Civic |
| #8288, aired 2020-11-25 | À LA CARTOGRAPHY $1600: It's a general term for maps used by ocean navigators; there's a book of these "& Coastal Views of Captain Cook's Voyages" charts |
| #8280, aired 2020-11-13 | A NOVEL CATEGORY $400: "Ali Cross", a book for young mystery fans, features the son of Alex Cross from novels by this author James Patterson |
| #8279, aired 2020-11-12 | WARM WORDS $1200: In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar tosses 3 men into this alliterative "furnace" fiery |
| #8278, aired 2020-11-11 | GEOLOGY $1,500 (Daily Double): J. Harlen Bretz explored many of these with his dog; in his book, these "of Missouri", he called them "valleys with roofs" caves |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $200: In "Tropic of Fear" Nancy Drew met up with these brothers for a Hawaiian-themed mystery the Hardy Boys |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $400: This lady who lived in the British village of St. Mary Mead solved "The Murder at the Vicarage" (Jane) Marple |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $600: "The Interpretation of Murder" finds this Austrian & Carl Jung caught up in a Manhattan murder mystery Freud |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $800: This "colorful" boy detective solved many crimes, like "The Case of the Stolen Diamonds" Encyclopedia Brown |
| #8276, aired 2020-11-09 | THE BOOK CASE $1000: This, Mary Shelley's middle name, is the name of a detective agency in which a young Mary solves cases Wollstonecraft |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANTHROPOLOGY $1200: This flowy top is in an anthropology book as "the most universal of civilized garments" & in Anthropologie stores sells for $95 a tunic |
| #8273, aired 2020-11-04 | ANTHROPOLOGY $7,000 (Daily Double): Ruth Benedict analyzed this country in her classic book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" Japan |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | SWEET TOME ALABAMA $400: The plot of the book "Crazy in Alabama" includes a woman auditioning for this 1960s sitcom about country folks who come to California The Beverly Hillbillies |
| #8271, aired 2020-11-02 | FAILURE TO LUNCH $600: I bailed on lunch with a big group; I'm this type of person mentioned in the subtitle of Susan Cain's book "Quiet" an introvert |
| #8270, aired 2020-10-30 | FICTION $400: In her first book this teen detective solves "The Secret of the Old Clock"; then in No. 2, she explores "The Hidden Staircase" Nancy Drew |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | DO YOUR JOB! $600: A pilot is the person controlling an aircraft, or in the case of the book "Life on the Mississippi", one of these a steamboat |
| #8268, aired 2020-10-28 | EVERYDAY GERMAN IN ENGLISH $2000: A book about the hero's formative years is this kind of "education novel" a bildungsroman |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $400: Louise Fitzhugh:
"Harriet the ____" Spy |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $800: Thomas Hardy:
"The ____ of Casterbridge" Mayor |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | POP CULTURE $1200: Peter Laird, co-creator of these comic book heroes, wishes the cartoon had not made them so obsessed with pizza the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $1200: John le Carre:
"The Night ____" Manager |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $1600: John Fowles:
"The French ____'s Woman" Lieutenant |
| #8267, aired 2020-10-27 | THE BOOK OF JOB $2000: C.S. Lewis:
"The ____'s Nephew" Magician |
| #8266, aired 2020-10-26 | A 5-MARTINI LIBRARY $2,200 (Daily Double): In a Kurt Vonnegut novel, Bonnie, a cocktail waitress at the Holiday Inn, calls martinis this, the book's title breakfast of champions |
| #8264, aired 2020-10-22 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $600: Washington Irving's story about this nap-happy fella was first published in "The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent." Rip Van Winkle |
| #8263, aired 2020-10-21 | IN THE ROUGH DRAFT $2000: The book "A First Draft Version of" this last Joyce novel shows that parts are not only incomprehensible, but illegible too Finnegans Wake |
| #8262, aired 2020-10-20 | DENNIS, ANYONE? $800: Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs was known for his book about this letter's "Programming Language" C |
| #8258, aired 2020-10-14 | AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $1600: This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes" Shonda Rhimes |
| #8257, aired 2020-10-13 | THE CUBISTS $5,900 (Daily Double): "Tender Buttons", written by this American expatriate while she was living in Paris, is a book of Cubist still-life prose-poems Gertrude Stein |
| #8254, aired 2020-10-08 | DYE ANOTHER DAY $800: "Sweet Thursday" is the name of a book by John Steinbeck, very different from this nickname for October 24, 1929 on Wall Street Black Thursday |
| #8253, aired 2020-10-07 | THE LIBRARIAN INVASIONS $2000: Lucien becomes chief librarian of the Dreaming in this Neil Gaiman comic book series with a one-word title Sandman |
| #8246, aired 2020-09-28 | WRITERS ANONYMOUS $200: The anonymous author of the 2019 book "A Warning" is listed as a senior official in this administration the Trump Administration |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | FLICK OF SEAGULLS $800: Seagulls eat a lot of Paul Rudd's flying transports in this 2018 comic book sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp |
| #8245, aired 2020-09-25 | GUYS NAMED DOUG $1000: "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" is a 1988 book by this British humorist Douglas Adams |
| #8244, aired 2020-09-24 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In a novel by Jonathan Franzen, Alfred Lambert & his son Chip face their failures to make these, the title of the book corrections |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $400: 2017 winner David Grossman's "A Horse Walks Into a Bar" follows one of these funny folks losing it onstage a comedian |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $800: An immigrant is the hero of the title tale of a Mark Helprin collection, this "Island" in New York Bay Ellis Island |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $1600: A towering story of biblical proportions, this author's "Exodus" won for 1959 (Leon) Uris |
| #8241, aired 2020-09-21 | THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION $2000: 1950 winner "The Wall" by John Hersey is about an escape from the ghetto of 400,000 Jews set up by the Nazis in this capital Warsaw |
| #8235, aired 2020-06-12 | TABLE TALK $1000: "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" is a book of essays by this writer & father of a Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
| #8233, aired 2020-06-10 | LITERARY TITLE BEVERAGES $400: Okakura Kakuzo's classic work "The Book of" this beverage explores its history & place in Asian culture tea |
| #8232, aired 2020-06-09 | ADVERBIALLY $1200: Steve Jobs liked to say Apple products were this "crazy" kind of great, also the title of a book about the Macintosh insanely |
| #8231, aired 2020-06-08 | FONTS OF WISDOM $4,800 (Daily Double): The font for this historic book printed in 1455 has come to be known as textura the Gutenberg Bible |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $400: Children's book publisher Puffin is an offshoot of this other bird-y publisher Penguin |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | LITERARY HODGEPODGE $600: In "The Jungle Book", he's the "sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the "law of the jungle" Baloo |
| #8230, aired 2020-06-05 | PUBLISHERS $3,400 (Daily Double): The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education" Scholastic |
| #8228, aired 2020-06-03 | HOT STUFF! $1600: In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them the book of Daniel |
| #8227, aired 2020-06-02 | WOMEN AUTHORS $1600: "The House on Mango Street" is the first book of fiction by this Mexican-American woman (Sandra) Cisneros |
| #8223, aired 2020-05-27 | OF TEACHERS & TESTS $400: I can read you like this 2-word term for an exam in which students are allowed to consult notes & texts an open book |
| #8222, aired 2020-05-26 | FROM PAGE TO SCREEN $1000: Just like the second book about this British diarist, the second film about her was subtitled "The Edge of Reason" Bridget Jones |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | SAYETH THE BIBLE $600: "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy... for the time is at hand" is in this Bible book Revelation |
| #8221, aired 2020-05-25 | RECENT BESTSELLERS $800: Shh! It's the 5-letter title of Susan Cain's book about "The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" Quiet |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | MAGAZINES $1000: In her book "Save Me the Plums", Ruth Reichl recounts her days as editor in chief of this fancy food magazine that ceased to be in 2009 Gourmet |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | CHILDREN'S LIT $200: I think I can, I think I can, get you to give me this 5-word title of a Watty Piper kids' book with a never-give-up message The Little Engine That Could |
| #8214, aired 2020-04-30 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: One of the first novels for children was the 1765 book seen here about this girl whose name now means someone annoyingly virtuous Goody Two-Shoes |
| #8207, aired 2020-04-21 | THE FIELD MARSHAL PLAN $200: Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery once said, "Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is do not march on" this Russian city Moscow |
| #8206, aired 2020-04-20 | QUESTIONS FROM A 1927 QUIZ BOOK $800: The "3 new European nations of more than 10 million...as a result of the World War" were Poland, Czechoslovakia & this Slovene-ly one Yugoslavia |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | NOTE BOOKS $400: Written in the early 1780s, "Notes on the State of Virginia" was the only book this president ever published Jefferson |
| #8205, aired 2020-04-17 | POSITIVE HISTORY $800: In 1620 Spanish priest Juan Pablo Bonet published the first book about this type of communication for the deaf sign language |
| #8203, aired 2020-04-15 | SCHOLARSHIP $1200: John Dominic Crossan wrote the controversial book "The Historical" him: "The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant" Jesus |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | BOOK CHAPTERS $400: "Baskerville Hall", "First Report of Dr. Watson" The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | BOOK CHAPTERS $600: "Tom Shows His Generosity--Aunt Polly Weakens" The Adventures of Tom Sawyer |
| #8202, aired 2020-04-14 | BOOK CHAPTERS $800: "Huts on the Beach", "Castle Rock" Lord of the Flies |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $400: Aslan represents one of the 3 title items in this first Chronicle of Narnia "The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe" |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $800: Book 4 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series is titled "So Long, and Thanks for All" these Fish |
| #8198, aired 2020-04-08 | BOOK TITLE ANIMALS $1000: Political tension surrounds 2 Turkish children in Ece Temelkuran's "The Time of Mute" these birds Swans |
| #8197, aired 2020-04-07 | BROADWAY MUSICALS $600: Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells played Elders Cunningham and Price when this musical opened in 2011 The Book of Mormon |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $400: Verses like "The Shuhamites...were threescore and four thousand and four hundred" explain this book's name Numbers |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $800: St. John experienced this in a cave on the isle of Patmos & is said to have written the Bible book of the same name there Revelation |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1200: In the 4th chapter of this book, Peter & John are imprisoned in Jerusalem for preaching the gospel Acts |
| #8194, aired 2020-04-02 | BOOKS OF THE BIBLE $1600: The Bible book named for this woman is read during Shavuot, the holiday observed 50 days after Passover Ruth |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | FOUR $1000: Credited to "The Beloved Physician", it's the longest of the 4 Gospels the Book of Luke |
| #8191, aired 2020-03-30 | 20th CENTURY BOOKS $1200: In 1996 Oprah's Book Club read this Toni Morrison novel with a biblical title Song of Solomon |
| #8190, aired 2020-03-27 | ORDINAL TERMS $1000: Judy Blume introduced Peter Hatcher & his little brother Fudge in her book "Tales of" this, the first in a series A Fourth Grade Nothing |
| #8187, aired 2020-03-24 | GET-TOGETHERS $2000: It's French for "evening"; an 1887 book of manners says it's held at an early hour & is more about conversation than dancing a soiree |
| #8185, aired 2020-03-20 | WE KNEAD THE BREAD $400: Chapter 12, verse 15 of this Bible book contains the line "Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread" Exodus |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $200: At the end of this book, Piper Kerman thanked the women of Danbury Federal Correctional Institution for changing her life Orange is the New Black |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $600: This Michelle Obama memoir was the bestselling hardcover book of 2018 Becoming |
| #8181, aired 2020-03-16 | ARCHITECTURE HISTORY $1200: One of Frederick John Kiesler's last works was the Shrine of the Book, completed in 1965 in this country Israel |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | REPORT CARDS OF HISTORICAL FIGURES $600: Physics: Uses time wisely, in a book subtitled "From the Big Bang to Black Holes" (Stephen) Hawking |
| #8179, aired 2020-03-12 | BEFORE & AFTER $1600: An Ancient Egyptian collection of funerary texts that is a Robin Williams film with the message "Carpe diem" the Book of the Dead Poets Society |
| #8176, aired 2020-03-09 | HOW ABOUT DESERT? $400: This Bible book of songs features a desert: "Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb" Psalms |
| #8174, aired 2020-03-05 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Seen here is the title character of this 2017 book, also the title of a 1954 novel about a very evil little girl The Bad Seed |
| #8172, aired 2020-03-03 | LUKE $1200: Luke is also presumed to have written this other book that deals with the furthering of Christianity Acts |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | NOVEL CHARACTERS $600: The 2 main female characters in this Edith Wharton novel are the proper May Welland & the exotic & daring Ellen Olenska Age of Innocence |
| #8171, aired 2020-03-02 | WORDS FROM THE MAP $2,400 (Daily Double): Referencing famous falls, a 1912 book complains that a this "of nonsense is continually roaring from the press" Niagara |
| #8165, aired 2020-02-21 | THE WRITERS ARE TRYING TO BE CLEVER $800: Seen here, this Florida humorist wrote a defense of his homeland in the book "Best State Ever" Dave Barry |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $200: "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them" Genesis |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $400: "And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled" Exodus |
| #8164, aired 2020-02-20 | THE BIBLE BOOK TELLS ME SO $800: "Then (he) prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly" Jonah |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $200: Rudolf Flesch found that the son of a friend had never been taught to sound out letters; hence the book "Why" he "Can't Read" Johnny |
| #8163, aired 2020-02-19 | WEIGHTS & MEASURES $600: The Book of Acts talks about these nautical measurements of depth equal to 6 feet a fathom |
| #8162, aired 2020-02-18 | SPEAKING VOLUMES $1200: The most recent edition of this lexicon in book form was published in 20 volumes in 1989 the Oxford English Dictionary (the OED) |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | SURVIVOR $1000: (Jeff Probst, the host of Survivor, presents the clue.) The castaways on "Survivor: China" visited the Great Wall & the Shaolin Temple, home of kung fu; for help with strategy the tribes were given this book that Sun Tzu wrote more than 2,500 years ago, though its tactics apply to "Survivor" as if it had been written today The Art of War |
| #8161, aired 2020-02-17 | 3-WORD BOOK TITLES BY MIDDLE WORD $1000: W. Somerset Maugham:
"Human" Of Human Bondage |
| #8158, aired 2020-02-12 | RAPPER'S DELIGHT $800: Just like Oprah, Chicago rapper Noname started one of these in 2019 that thousands of people joined a book club |
| #8156, aired 2020-02-10 | WINTRY READING $400: In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens mittens |
| #8155, aired 2020-02-07 | AWARDS & HONORS $1600: A silver lantern is given by the JFK Library with "The Profile in" this award to recipients who exemplify the spirit of JFK's book Courage |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $800: Title of Charles Berlitz' 1974 bestseller about the ships & planes that have vanished in an area, of the Atlantic The Bermuda Triangle |
| #8154, aired 2020-02-06 | SHAPELY BOOK TITLES $1600: It's the 2-word title of a memoir by Shirley Temple Black, who was perhaps the most famous one ever the Child Star |
| #8150, aired 2020-01-31 | LITERARY FESTIVALS $2000: One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness" (Joseph) Conrad |
| #8149, aired 2020-01-30 | THE WORLD OF THE 1800s $800: This translation of certain plates was published in 1830; a much, much different version came to Broadway in 2011 the Book of Mormon |
| #8148, aired 2020-01-29 | SIN-OPSIS $800: In a Jeffrey Eugenides novel, each of the lovely Lisbon sisters commits this, which a priest in the book calls a mortal sin suicide |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | BOOKS ABOUT ANCIENT HISTORY $400: "The Fall of Athens" is the 37th & final chapter in Donald Kagan's book named for this war the Peloponnesian |
| #8144, aired 2020-01-23 | NEW ON THE BOOKSHELF $600: In "The Book of Gutsy Women", this former first lady & her daughter tell the stories of their heroes, like Diana Nyad & Rachel Carson (Hillary) Clinton |
| #8140, aired 2020-01-17 | NUMBER THAT BOOK $1000: "___ Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis" Thirteen |
| #8138, aired 2020-01-15 | FAMOUS & HISTORIC WOMEN $600 (Daily Double): Let's tell of her & nothing but her--she was born a slave in the 1790s & once freed, sold a book of her "Narrative" Sojourner Truth |
| #8, aired 2020-01-14 | THE GREATEST CANADIANS OF ALL TIME $400: (Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) This educator who thought the printed book was an institution that was fated to disappear gave us an aphorism that has not disappeared: "the medium is the message" Marshall McLuhan |
| #7, aired 2020-01-14 | KNIGHT LINE $1000: The Red Cross Knight is "pricking on the plaine" in Book 1 of this long, long 1590 poem ("pricking" meant spurring a horse) The Faerie Queene |
| #8136, aired 2020-01-13 | THEIR PEN WENT SILENT $4,000 (Daily Double): Just prior to his death in 2006, this bestselling novelist wrote a book for younger readers called "Shark Life" Peter Benchley |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $400: Mark Frost wrote "The Secret History of" this place, also the title of a TV show he created with David Lynch Twin Peaks |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $1200: Mark Haddon got the title of this novel from an observation made by Sherlock Holmes in an 1892 story The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
| #8135, aired 2020-01-10 | BOOK MARKS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this novel Mark Watney says, "I didn't die on Sol 6. Certainly the rest of the crew thought I did" The Martian |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | AN "OK" CATEGORY $1000: The best of the 4 possible positions used in transactional analysis is the title of this 1960s self-help book I'm OK – You're OK |
| #6, aired 2020-01-09 | IT COMES THIRD $2000: "Arrow of God", about a Nigerian priest dealing with missionaries, is the last book he wrote in what's called his "African Trilogy" (Chinua) Achebe |
| #4, aired 2020-01-08 | AUDIBLE $1600: Frances McDormand introduces us to a beloved character in this first book in a series by Armistead Maupin
Mary Ann Singleton was twenty-five years old when she saw San Francisco for the first time Tales of the City |
| #3, aired 2020-01-08 | TAKE AN "IQ" TEST $1200: "Invasion of the Boy Snatchers" is a book in a young adult series named for this type of social group a clique |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | THE OSCARS $600: This half of a sibling duo runs the gamut from "There's Something About Mary" to "Green Book", for which he won 2 Oscars Peter Farrelly |
| #1, aired 2020-01-07 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: Tootie, Blair, Jo & Natalie show up in the third "Hitchhiker's Guide" book with boiled & baked Jewish rolls with all the fixins The Facts of Life, the Universe and Everything bagel |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | MY PROFESSION'S IN THE BOOK TITLE $400: Porthos a Musketeer |
| #8130, aired 2020-01-03 | MY PROFESSION'S IN THE BOOK TITLE $1200: Stephen Dedalus artist |
| #8126, aired 2019-12-30 | 17th CENTURY HISTORY $400: This 1611 book had what were known as "He" & "She" editions, after variants in the last words of Ruth 3:15 the King James Bible |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | BIBLE "D"ICTIONARY $200: Traditionally the authorship of this book is attributed to Moses, but chapter 34 gives an account of his death Deuteronomy |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $1200: In 1926 "The Sun Also Rises" was one of the first novels mailed by this club that lets you discover new titles 12 times a year the Book of the Month Club |
| #8125, aired 2019-12-27 | MAIL-ORDER NOVELS $2000: One of Powell's Indiespensable Book Club selections was George Saunders' "Lincoln" in this purgatory-like state Bardo |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | MAMA & DADA $400: This host of "The Tonight Show" wrote the children's book "Your Baby's First Word Will Be DADA" (Jimmy) Fallon |
| #8123, aired 2019-12-25 | NORTHERN CALIFORNIA $800: This national park may be near the end of alphabet, but its 1,430-foot upper fall is tops in our book Yosemite |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | LITERATURE $800: Lila & Elena are pals in this first book of Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet My Brilliant Friend |
| #8121, aired 2019-12-23 | THE NOT-SO-YOUNG SHELDON $2000: Written at age 87, this prolific author's final book was "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" Sidney Sheldon |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $400: Eudora Welty said this E.B. White book about "friendship on earth, affection and protection" was "just about perfect" Charlotte's Web |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $600: The N.Y. Times said of this 1947 book, the words & the pictures "combine to lull and reassure when bedtime and darkness come" Goodnight Moon |
| #8117, aired 2019-12-17 | CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS $1000: Dorothy Parker wrote, "Tonstant weader fwowed up" in her 1928 review of the book "The House at" this place Pooh Corner |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | SPARK JOY $600: A foreword to this book says Irma Rombauer wrote it in 1931, when "women all over the country were... again heading to the kitchen" Joy of Cooking |
| #8116, aired 2019-12-16 | SPARK JOY $1,000 (Daily Double): One a Buddhist, one a South African Anglican, these 2 religious leaders co-wrote "The Book of Joy" the Dalai Lama & Desmond Tutu |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $400: "Attlee, Clement", "Bergen-Belsen, Liberation of" & "Nagasaki" are index entries in Ian Buruma's book about this year 1945 |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $800: 2 books published 50 years apart identify 1877 as a year of violence & as the end of this post-slavery period in the south Reconstruction |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $1600: A novel by John Dos Passos titled this year includes a look at the negotiation of the Treaty of Versailles 1919 |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2,000 (Daily Double): A book titled this year is subtitled "The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry" 1066 |
| #8114, aired 2019-12-12 | BOOK OF THE YEAR $2000: "1959" makes much of this Soviet craft, the first to escape Earth's gravity, though it didn't make it to the moon it was named for Luna (or Lunik) |
| #8110, aired 2019-12-06 | OLD BOOKS $400: The Domesday Book, a record of the value & ownership of land in 11th century England, was compiled by order of this king William the Conqueror |
| #8108, aired 2019-12-04 | TIGER TALK $200: Made famous by a 2011 book, this type of parent is strict & demanding & pushes children to be successful a tiger mom |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | BEFORE & AFTER $400: Golf short game practice area served up in the title of a Dr. Seuss book a putting Green Eggs and Ham |
| #8105, aired 2019-11-29 | THE OLD WEST $400: Some lazy, some crazy, these marks were registered in a book & showed the ownership of open-range cattle brands |
| #8101, aired 2019-11-25 | NEW YORK-SET NOVELS $200: When the Book-of-the-Month Club asked about changing this novel's title, its author said, "Holden Caulfield wouldn't like that" Catcher in the Rye |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $400: Thoreau's goal in writing about his time by this body of water was to "front only the essential facts of life" Walden |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | KLAUS ENCOUNTERS $800: Klaus Baudelaire is a character in this 13-book "Series" A Series of Unfortunate Events |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $800: In an 1884 novel Jim is held as an escaped slave after rafting down this river the Mississippi |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $2000: "I've never been in a boat before", says Mole to the Rat as the 2 head down a river in this Kenneth Grahame novel The Wind in the Willows |
| #8099, aired 2019-11-21 | THE BOOK OF LAKE (& POND & RIVER) $2,200 (Daily Double): Chapter XXV of "Le Morte d'Arthur" is "How Arthur By the Mean of Merlin Gat Excalibur His Sword of" this woman the Lady of the Lake |
| #8098, aired 2019-11-20 | THE GREAT AMERICAN READ'S TOP 100 BOOKS $200: This Harper Lee classic topped the list & was the favorite book of 48 states as well To Kill a Mockingbird |
| #8095, aired 2019-11-15 | BEFORE, DURING & AFTER $1600: The singer who voiced the Ape King in "The Jungle Book" was a leading female opera soloist & the "Queen of Disco" Louis Prima Donna Summer |
| #8094, aired 2019-11-14 | A WRITER'S LIFE FOR ME $3,000 (Daily Double): Echoing the title character of a book by his great uncle, he assumed the surname Melmoth after leaving prison in 1897 Oscar Wilde |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $200: In 2013, this young actress & singer had a bestseller with "Staying Strong", a book of affirmations Demi Lovato |
| #8093, aired 2019-11-13 | BESTSELLING BOOKS $600: This 7th book in the Harry Potter series sold 8.3 million copies on its first day of release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows |
| #8092, aired 2019-11-12 | VISIONARIES $400: The visions in the Book of Revelation, like a 7-headed beast, are credited to a man with this name, maybe the apostle John |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $200: In this Bible book "The children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea" Exodus |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $800: A gopher is on the cover of the book titled this comedy film: "The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story" Caddyshack |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | THE KING JAMES BIBLE SAYETH... $800: This book namechecks itself in the very first line: These sayings of "the son of David" Proverbs |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | TRUE STORY $1600: Barack Obama's first book was "Dreams from My Father"; his second was this "bold" bestseller that arrived in 2006 The Audacity of Hope |
| #8091, aired 2019-11-11 | EXPRESSIONS & IDIOMS $2000: This 2-word cooler-sounding way to say "second job" is the title of a book subtitled "From Idea to Income in 27 Days" Side Hustle |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | GHOSTWRITERS $400: Movie star Hedy Lamarr sued her own publisher, claiming that much of this book was invented by a ghostwriter her autobiography |
| #8089, aired 2019-11-07 | GHOSTWRITERS $3,600 (Daily Double): Speechwriter Ted Sorensen admitted that he wrote the first draft of most of this Pulitzer Prize-winning book by JFK Profiles in Courage |
| #8087, aired 2019-11-05 | THE DARK AGES $1600: This illuminated book was probably taken to County Meath in Ireland in the 9th century the Book of Kells |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS $1600: Thomas Pynchon found the Fiction Prize at the end of this 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | BOOK NUMBERS $400: "The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People" 7 |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | BOOK NUMBERS $800: From "The Charge of the Light Brigade": "All in the valley of Death rode the ___" 600 |
| #8082, aired 2019-10-29 | BOOK NUMBERS $1000: A Temperance Brennan novel: "___ Bones" (referring to the number of bones in the body) 206 |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $800: Reading the book "The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space" changed the life of this German who went on to be a rocket scientist (Wernher) von Braun |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE $1200: Percy Jackson & his friends realize that war among Greek gods must be prevented in this musical named for the first Percy Jackson book Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief |
| #8079, aired 2019-10-24 | YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS $2000: Robert James Waller got the idea for this bestselling book when he was taking pictures in Iowa in the early 1990s The Bridges of Madison County |
| #8078, aired 2019-10-23 | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WOMEN $1000: Of the more than 1,400 submissions for a Vietnam veterans memorial, her design was chosen Maya Lin |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $200: The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle Hogwarts |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $400: The party tree that grew in this Middle-earth land was the location of Bilbo's farewell speech the Shire |
| #8077, aired 2019-10-22 | A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND $1,000 (Daily Double): "It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood's depths" in an 1883 tale of this hero Robin Hood |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $400: A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys the Lambda Award |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $800: This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $1,400 (Daily Double): Forget the love story--Pasternak's "Dr. Zhivago" was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction the Bolsheviks |
| #8076, aired 2019-10-21 | BAN THAT BOOK! $1600: Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England "Howl" |
| #8075, aired 2019-10-18 | THIS SIDE OF PARODIES $1200: We follow not a baby bird but a young woman in "Are You My Boyfriend?", a twist on this 1960 kids' book Are You My Mother? |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | THE NONFICTION BOOK'S SUBTITLE $200: With a rhyming title: "The True Story of the Manson Murders" Helter Skelter |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | THE NONFICTION BOOK'S SUBTITLE $400: "A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" Freakonomics |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | THE NONFICTION BOOK'S SUBTITLE $600: About Louis Zamperini: "A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" Unbroken |
| #8074, aired 2019-10-17 | 4-WORD EXCHANGE $1000: 4-word phrase that's the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic but wait, there's more |
| #8072, aired 2019-10-15 | THAT CODEX MOMENT $400: The codex, an early form of the modern book, began replacing this less wieldy form early in the first millennium A.D. a scroll |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $400: Including whoopers, this is "a family of large birds with long legs and a long neck" cranes |
| #8071, aired 2019-10-14 | I READ IT IN THE WORLD BOOK $1000: He "(1889?-1950), was the most famous male dancer of his time" Nijinsky |
| #8068, aired 2019-10-09 | LITERARY CHARACTERS $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew at Texas Beeworks in Austin.) In the story "His Last Bow", this fictional character says of his retirement, "I live and keep bees upon the South Downs," and shows Dr. Watson the book he wrote on beekeeping Sherlock Holmes |
| #8062, aired 2019-10-01 | LITERARY NARRATORS $400: In the epilogue to "Moby-Dick", this rescued narrator quotes from the book of Job: "and I only am escaped alone to tell thee" Ishmael |
| #8061, aired 2019-09-30 | IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON $800: "In the light of the moon a little egg lay on a leaf" is the first line of this classic children's book The Very Hungry Caterpillar |
| #8058, aired 2019-09-25 | SWEAR IN THE BIBLE $2000: The book of Jeremiah asks, "Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto" this Canaanite god? Baal |
| #8057, aired 2019-09-24 | READ ANY BESTSELLERS LATELY? $3,000 (Daily Double): Baseball writer Tyler Kepner took an in-depth look at 10 types of pitches in a book with this single letter as its title K |
| #8056, aired 2019-09-23 | FRUITFUL BOOK TITLES $800: A book about "remarkable stories of people overcoming adversity" is titled "When Life" does this Gives You Lemons |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $400: "Pebble in the Sky" was his first novel, the "Foundation" of a long & prolific career writing science fiction Asimov |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $800: "The Fastest Kid in the Fifth Grade" is chapter 3 of "Bridge to" this enchanted land Terabithia |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $1200: He taught us "The Power of Myth" Joseph Campbell |
| #8055, aired 2019-09-20 | THE BOOK NOOK $1600: The title of this debut novel by Gillian Flynn is an allusion to cutting, part of Camille Preaker's traumatic past in the book Sharp Objects |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $400: This book by Malcolm Gladwell subtitled "The Power of Thinking Without Thinking" is a real eye-opener Blink |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $800: Born a slave, Sethe escapes to Ohio but is haunted by memories of a lost baby in this Toni Morrison novel Beloved |
| #8054, aired 2019-09-19 | ONE-WORD BOOK TITLES $4,133 (Daily Double): This 1974 James Michener novel covers centuries, not just 1 significant year, in the history of Colorado Centennial |
| #8051, aired 2019-09-16 | 200 YEARS OF WALT WHITMAN $1000: After Walt published his first book of verse, this "Sage of Concord" wrote to him, "I greet you at the beginning of a great career" Emerson |
| #8050, aired 2019-09-13 | INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE $800: Born off Queensland, Kath Walker, aka Oodgeroo Noonuccal, wrote "We Are Going", the 1st book of poems by a person of this ethnicity Aboriginal |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $200: This kid lit classic has a chapter called "The Puppies Arrive" One Hundred and One Dalmatians |
| #8048, aired 2019-09-11 | NUMERIC LIT $400: E.L. James self-published this first book in an erotic series that started as fan fiction loosely based on "Twilight" Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE 40-YEAR-OLD GERMAN $1600: In 1725, 3 years after Book I of the "Well-Tempered Clavier", this 4-decades-old man composed his "Easter Oratorio" (Johann Sebastian) Bach |
| #8041, aired 2019-07-22 | FROM "C" TO "X" $1600: It's an ancient manuscript that is the earliest form of a book; there is a Madrid one & a Dresden one a codex |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | FANCY RESTAURANTS $1000: Diners book months in advance at Apège in Paris; in winter the menu has black truffles & in spring, stalks of white this asparagus |
| #8037, aired 2019-07-16 | IN THE AIR $6,000 (Daily Double): In a Khaled Hosseini book, the "real fun began" when the string of one of these "was cut" a kite |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | THE WALL $1,200 (Daily Double): A book about Frank Calvert & Heinrich Schliemann is called "Finding the Walls of" this city Troy |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $200: In "The Marvelous Land of Oz", he's the ruler of the Emerald City & is still full of straw the Scarecrow |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SECOND BOOK IN THE SERIES $600: In "Second Summer of the Sisterhood", Bridget, Lena, Carmen & Tibby get more wear out of these title jeans the traveling pants |
| #8032, aired 2019-07-09 | SONGS IN ANIMATED MOVIES $800: Also in the 1967 movie, "I Wan'na Be Like You" made the cut for Jon Favreau's recent version of this movie The Jungle Book |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $1200: A kids' book about this Giza figure is subtitled "The Pharaoh's Eternal Guardian" the Sphinx |
| #8030, aired 2019-07-05 | BIOGRAPHIES OF NON-PEOPLE $1600: Susan Orlean's book about him tells how he became a '20s film star, though his dark coat was difficult to light Rin Tin Tin |
| #8028, aired 2019-07-03 | ITALIAN MUSIC TERMS $800: Meaning "little book", it's the words of an opera libretto |
| #8026, aired 2019-07-01 | VILE QUOTES $400: In the book of this much-suffering Biblical man, he "answered the Lord, and said, behold, I am vile" Job |
| #8023, aired 2019-06-26 | BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SONGS $800: "I Am Africa" & "Joseph Smith American Moses" The Book of Mormon |
| #8022, aired 2019-06-25 | INTERNATIONAL PARKS $1200: The lands at Tel Megiddo National Park in Israel feature prominently in this last book of the Bible Revelation |
| #8019, aired 2019-06-20 | BOOKS OF MYSTERY $1200: A book series was launched when 15-year-old Janie, at lunch in the cafeteria, saw her own "Face on" this the milk carton |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $200: Chapter 21 of this classic is "Laurie Makes Mischief, and Jo Makes Peace" Little Women |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $400: Chapter 15 of "Twilight" is named for this family of Edward's the Cullens |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $600: "The Expanding Universe" is a chapter in his book "A Brief History of Time" Stephen Hawking |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $800: Chapter 1 of this novel by Louis Sachar begins "There is no lake at Camp Green Lake" Holes |
| #8018, aired 2019-06-19 | BOOK CHAPTERS $3,000 (Daily Double): This first book in a series has the chapters "What Lucy Found There" & "Back on This Side of the Door" The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | OLD BOOKS $800: "Sing aloud unto God our strength", says this biblical book of poems meant to be sung Psalms |
| #8016, aired 2019-06-17 | OLD BOOKS $1200: Dating from 3,500 years ago, this civilization's "Book of the Dead" is a manual for the afterlife Egypt |
| #8013, aired 2019-06-12 | EPONYMS $400: That number on the spine of a library book honors this father of American library science (Melvil) Dewey |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $200: "The Bad Beginning" is Book One in "A Series of" these unfortunate events |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $800: Hunter S. Thompson heads into the desert in this book subtitled "A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream" Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
| #8011, aired 2019-06-10 | BOOKS $1000: "The Fates of Human Societies" is the subtitle of Jared Diamond's book with this trio as its title Guns, Germs, and Steel |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $400: In Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City", the city is this one "by the bay" San Francisco |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $800: In Volume 11 of this series by Meg Cabot, Mia Thermopolis is having a "royal wedding" The Princess Diaries |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $1200: At the beginning of the final book in this trilogy, we learn that "almost nothing remains of District 12" The Hunger Games |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $1600: Diana Gabaldon gave Lord John Grey, an important recurring character in this series, a series of his own Outlander |
| #8008, aired 2019-06-05 | BOOK SERIES $2000: Published shortly before his death, Robert Jordan's "New Spring" is a prequel to this epic fantasy series The Wheel of Time |
| #8005, aired 2019-05-31 | RELIGION FOUNDERS $800: Joseph Smith said the angel Moroni told him of a set of golden plates that Joseph translated into this text the Book of Mormon |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $200: In the title of a 1934 novel, he "Always Rings Twice" the postman |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $600: The French title of this epic 7-part novel literally translates to "In Search of Lost Time" Remembrance of Things Past |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $800: The title of this '70s Stephen King novel was inspired by a line in the chorus of John Lennon's "Instant Karma" The Shining |
| #8004, aired 2019-05-30 | BOOK TITLES $1000: Stephen Crane considered calling this work "Private Fleming: His Various Battles" The Red Badge of Courage |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | "GREEN" BOOK $600: "Anne of Avonlea" was the first of 7 sequels to this sentimental 1908 bestseller Anne of Green Gables |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | "GREEN" BOOK $1000: It's Hemingway's chronicle of big game hunting in what's now Tanzania the Green Hills of Africa |
| #8000, aired 2019-05-24 | IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE $1600: The book of Acts reports that this first Christian martyr "did great wonders and miracles among the people" Stephen |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $400: A real Wilde read:
"The Picture of" this beautiful young man Dorian Gray |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $800: 10-year-old Opal describes all the good things that happen to her "Because of" this dog Winn-Dixie |
| #7998, aired 2019-05-22 | COMPLETE THE BOOK TITLE $2000: The first novel by Junot Diaz:
"The Brief Wondrous Life of" this title guy Oscar Wao |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $400: Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of" this entity covers more than 1,000 years of history the Roman Empire |
| #7995, aired 2019-05-17 | AND A BOOK $600: Somerset Maugham's "The Moon and Sixpence", about a man who heads to Tahiti to paint, is based on the life of this man Paul Gauguin |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $200: Here at "Jeopardy!", a TOC is a Tournament of Champions; in a book, it's one of these a table of contents |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $400: To make it easy to add pages late in the process, the intro pages of a book usually get these, not Arabic ones like the text Roman numerals |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $800: This part of many a scholarly book is from the Greek for "book writing" a bibliography |
| #7994, aired 2019-05-16 | BOOKS $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a book and its ISBN.) On the back of every book there's a code; on the one here, the 0 denotes the book is from an English-language country, & the number here stands for the publisher; the whole series is called an ISBN, this type of book number International Standard |
| #7991, aired 2019-05-13 | BIOGRAPHY SUBJECTS $1,000 (Daily Double): Peter Guralnick's book about "The Rise of Elvis Presley" is aptly titled "Last Train to" this city Memphis |
| #7986, aired 2019-05-06 | CLICHES $600: This type of message predicting disaster comes from the book of Daniel the writing's on the wall |
| #7985, aired 2019-05-03 | THE SPINACH ACQUISITION $200: A sailor man might acquire the brand of spinach named for this comic book mariner Popeye |
| #7984, aired 2019-05-02 | NONFICTION $6,800 (Daily Double): Mark Kurlansky wrote a whole book on the history of this, "the only rock we eat" salt |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $400: The book "Gunfight" focuses on the history & interpretation of this amendment to the Constitution the Second |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | MONTY PYTHON PHRASES $1,000 (Daily Double): This, in the film of that title, is defined in part as "Be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book" the meaning of life |
| #7980, aired 2019-04-26 | SOCIAL STUDIES $1600: A book by Matthew Desmond looks at some folks whose rent is 80% of their income & end up getting this, the book's title Evicted |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $400: Brobdingnagian, meaning "of huge size", comes from this satire by Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels |
| #7978, aired 2019-04-24 | POSSESSIVE BOOK TITLES $2000: This work by Norman Mailer tells of convicted killer Gary Gilmore, who chose death by firing squad The Executioner's Song |
| #7974, aired 2019-04-18 | THE AUNT HILL $200: A book by M.M. Manring analyzes this pancake mix symbol's roots in the mammy figure of the old South Aunt Jemima |
| #7973, aired 2019-04-17 | CHILDREN'S BOOKS $200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA.) The Eric Carle Museum displays "The Wolf and the Dog", one of the illustrations in Carle's book "Twelve Tales from" this ancient Greek author of fables Aesop |
| #7972, aired 2019-04-16 | SOUNDS LIKE PIG LATIN $17,000 (Daily Double): The book of Daniel gives us this 3-word phrase for a hero's unexpected flaw feet of clay |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | AMERICAN LITERATURE $800: "More obscene than anything is inertia" is a line from this Henry Miller book some consider obscene Tropic of Cancer |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GENERAL KNOWLEDGE $800: In 2011 a newly revised 11th edition of this book on parliamentary procedure was published Robert's Rules of Order |
| #7970, aired 2019-04-12 | GOOGLE'S TOP SEARCHES, 1999-2018 $1000: Since 2005 the Bible has been the most searched book & No. 2 has been this somewhat more recent sacred text the Koran |
| #7968, aired 2019-04-10 | THANKS FOR THE MEMOIRS $2000: First name of Steve Jobs' daughter whose 2018 book "Small Fry" shows Dad's good & bad sides Lisa |
| #7967, aired 2019-04-09 | LOGGER $400: Sharing its name with a Beatles tune, it's the title of Lars Mytting's book about chopping trees the "Scandinavian way" Norwegian Wood |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $200: "The Wizard of Lies", which was made into an HBO film, tells of the rise & fall of this financier & Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $400: Pete Earley spent 2 years among some of the most dangerous criminals to write "The Hot House" about life inside this Kansas prison Leavenworth |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $600: "In All-American Murder", James Patterson turned to the case of this convicted NFL player who took his own life in prison Aaron Hernandez |
| #7966, aired 2019-04-08 | TRUE CRIME BOOK SHELF $800: "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" tells of the still unsolved Christmas night murder of this little girl in Boulder, Colorado JonBenét Ramsey |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $800: The title character of this E.B. White book is born 2 inches long, with a tail & whiskers Stuart Little |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $1600: Last name of Ramona, the title 8-year-old in a novel by Beverly Cleary Quimby |
| #7965, aired 2019-04-05 | BOOK TITLE NAMES $2000: "I spit on your happiness!" is a line from this Jean Anouilh tragedy about a daughter of Oedipus Antigone |
| #7964, aired 2019-04-04 | ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR $400: In the preface to this 1937 book, Tolkien explains that he is using "dwarves" instead of the preferred plural, "dwarfs" The Hobbit |
| #7963, aired 2019-04-03 | MAY THE SCHWARTZ BE WITH YOU $1600: Tony Schwartz was Donald Trump's co-author on this 1987 book about negotiation The Art of the Deal |
| #7961, aired 2019-04-01 | THEY TURNED MY BOOK INTO A MOVIE $1600: "Life of Pi" (Yann) Martel |
| #7957, aired 2019-03-26 | LITERARY ANTAGONISTS $1600: This "Jungle Book" tiger schemes to defeat the wolf pack & claim the life of young Mowgli Shere Khan |
| #7955, aired 2019-03-22 | PLEASE BEAR WITH THESE MOVIES $2000: Bill Murray voiced this bear in the 2016 version of "The Jungle Book" Baloo |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THE BOOK TITLE TITLE $200: "The Red ____: The Life and Legacy of Manfred von Richthofen" baron |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THE BOOK TITLE TITLE $600: "The ____ Bride: S. Morgenstern's classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure" princess |
| #7952, aired 2019-03-19 | THE BOOK TITLE TITLE $800: "Action Figure! The Life and Times of Doonesbury's Uncle ____" Uncle Duke |
| #7950, aired 2019-03-15 | ERAS & AGES $1600: In a book title by historian Eric Hobsbawm, the Age of Revolution began in this year of big doings in France 1789 |
| #7948, aired 2019-03-13 | CHILDREN'S LIT $1000: According to the title of a book by Giles Andreae, these animals "can't dance" giraffes |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | WOMEN AUTHORS $800: Barack Obama's favorite book of 2018 was this memoir by a former first lady Becoming |
| #7947, aired 2019-03-12 | EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP $1000: (Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst, MA):
The Eric Carle Museum has temporary tattoos of some of the animals in Carle's first book, the ones who ask this creature, "What do you see?" Brown Bear |
| #7946, aired 2019-03-11 | NONFICTION $1,200 (Daily Double): A book about this body is subtitled "The Rise & Fall of America's Favorite Planet" Pluto |
| #7944, aired 2019-03-07 | READING TALK $600: We're using every one of these, meaning all available methods every trick in the book |
| #7941, aired 2019-03-04 | WOMEN AUTHORS $200: Joan Didion has a book of essays called this, also the nickname for The Beatles' 1968 double LP The White Album |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | FROM THE "PEN" OF WEBSTER'S THIRD $200: "Next to the last" (this "chapter of a book") penultimate |
| #7939, aired 2019-02-28 | GET YOUR GAME ON $1000: This title of Stephen Potter's book on "Winning Games Without Actually Cheating" entered the English language Gamesmanship |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | RECENT BOOKS $200: This actress's grandmother described Southern women as "Whiskey in a Teacup", the title of her 2018 book (Reese) Witherspoon |
| #7938, aired 2019-02-27 | CROSSWORD CLUES "V" $1600: The left-hand page of a book or manuscript
(5) the verso |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $200: "Jude the Obscure"; remember to let it into your heart the 19th century |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $400: Saddle up for "Don Quixote" the 17th (or the 1600s) |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $600: "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", not a Welsh singer the 18th century (or the 1700s) |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $800: Johannes Gutenberg didn't write it, but his Bible... huge the 15th |
| #7937, aired 2019-02-26 | THE BOOK OF THE CENTURY $1000: "The Canterbury Tales" start to get told the 14th |
| #7929, aired 2019-02-14 | THIS IS 40: LITERARY EDITION $1600: Mrs. Wu turns 40 & changes her life in "Pavilion of Women", a China-set 1946 book by this American woman Pearl Buck |
| #7927, aired 2019-02-12 | HIP TO BE SQUARE $1200: Abigail Carroll's book about the "Invention of the American Meal" is titled this many "Squares" three |
| #7923, aired 2019-02-06 | WOMEN OF THE BIBLE $1600: Hannah was the mother of this judge & prophet with a first & second book to his name Samuel |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | CHICAGO, ATLANTA & MIAMI SOUND MACHINE $200: Paper Boi on "Atlanta", Brian Tyree Henry also starred on B'way as the general in this "Latter-Day" musical The Book of Mormon |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | LITERARY FIRST LINES $1200: A New York Times Best Book of the Year from 2010:
"Today I'm five. I was four last night going to sleep in wardrobe" Room |
| #7921, aired 2019-02-04 | NUMERIC WORDS & PHRASES $2000: The title of a 1936 book, this 3-word nickname for the U.S. Supreme Court ceased to apply in 1981 nine old men |
| #7920, aired 2019-02-01 | RELIGIOUS LITERATURE $1600: In addition to his books featuring talking lions, this author also wrote "Out of the Silent Planet", a book of religious sci-fi C.S. Lewis |
| #7916, aired 2019-01-28 | AWARD ETYMOLOGY $1600: This 18th century publisher of books & of Lilliputian, a magazine for kids, has his name on a children's book medal John Newbery |
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Regis Philbin, a TV host from Live with Regis and Kelly
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"In 2004 he entered the Guinness Book of Records as having...
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Josh Gad, a comedian from The Book of Mormon, Frozen, The Comedians, and Pixels
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"Nominated for a Tony for The Book of Mormon, he was...
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Thomas L. Friedman, an author and foreign affairs columnist from The New York Times
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"He has won three Pulitzer Prizes and authored six best sellers,...
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Cheech Marin, an actor, comedian, director, writer and musician from Lost
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"He's played a cop on Nash Bridges, voiced a 1959 Chevy...
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Laura Myers, a senior from the University of Missouri
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2009 College Championship second runner-up: $29,900. 22 and from Richmond, Virginia...
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Prashant Raghavendran, a sophomore from the University of Texas, Dallas
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Austin, Texas. Prashant Raghavendran Blog...
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Fred Beukema, a structural engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Season 25 3-time champion: $69,401 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"In January, the State Department named this NBA Hall of Famer...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Basketball Hall of Famer and all-time leading scorer from the NBA
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"He's one of the greatest NBA players in history. Here's Hall...
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Nick Yozamp, a junior from Washington University in St. Louis
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2010 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-A College Championship winner:...
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Amanda J. Ray, a sophomore at the University of Virginia from Harrisonburg, Virginia
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2010-B College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000 + a Nintendo Wii + the...
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Rebecca Lobo, a future Women\'s Basketball Hall of Famer and ESPN analyst originally from the WNBA
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\"Later this year, she\'ll be inducted into the Women\'s Basketball Hall...
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Bernard Holloway, a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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"He was a 2002 Teen Champion. He's now a sophomore at...
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Pat Sajak, a game show host from Wheel of Fortune
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"A former TV weatherman, he's gone on to become the world's...
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Bob Harris, an author, comedian, and radio commentator from Los Angeles, California
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"A 5-time champion and a finalist in the Tournament of Champions,...
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Lindsey Nicolai, a junior from Hampton, Virginia
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2007 Teen Tournament Summer Games quarterfinalist: $5,000. 17 at the time...
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Misti Coronel, a senior from Pottstown, Pennsylvania
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2001 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Al Franken, an author and radio talk show host from New York City
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"One of the original writers on Saturday Night Live, he's done...
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Sarah Marx, a junior from Chevy Chase, Maryland
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2008-B Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user name:...
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Jonathan Corbblah, a chess teacher from Harlem, New York
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,000 + $1,000. Jonathan appeared as a...
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Patrick Zakem, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Louisville, Kentucky
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"He would like to become an architect because he enjoys visualizing...
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Mike Maheu, a high school teacher from San Diego, California
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Season 25 2-time champion: $46,242 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Eric Betts, a senior from Emory University
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2009 College Championship first runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. 21 and...
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Nate Austin, a student from Hutchinson Community College
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"His original plan was to own a chain of international hotels...
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Neil Patrick Harris, an actor from How I Met Your Mother
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"He's received critical acclaim on Broadway and on TV, and his...
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Hill Harper, an author and actor from CSI: NY
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"As an award-winning author, he's written three New York Times best...
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Aisha Tyler, a comedienne, host and actress from Talk Soup, Friends, The 5th Wheel and Ghost Whisperer
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! winner: $50,000 split between the International Rescue Committee/Congo...
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David Faber, an anchor and reporter from CNBC's Squawk on the Street and The Faber Report
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"The winner of Emmy, Peabody, DuPont, and Loeb awards, he's a...
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Keith Olbermann, a news anchor from MSNBC
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"In 2004, this veteran reporter will provide extensive coverage of the...
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Tom Nissley, an online books editor from Seattle, Washington
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2014 Battle of the Decades invitee: $5,000. 2011 Tournament of Champions...
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Mark Lowenthal, an assistant director for the Central Intelligence Agency from Reston, Virginia
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"The winner of the 1988 Tournament of Champions, he's an assistant...
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Peggy Noonan, a contributing editor from The Wall Street Journal
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-10).
Charity: The Sisters of Life.
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Michael Day, an attorney from Mill Valley, California
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"As an MBA Student, he won 5 games in 1985. Today...
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Carson Kressley, a fashion maven from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
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"This star of TV's Queer Eye for the Straight Guy says...
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Emily Riippa, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Grand Rapids, Michigan
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"She is a fast reader, and her mother says she was...
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Megan Fraedrich, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Springfield, Virginia
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"And she was recently an evil stepsister in a performance of...
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Amanda Hall, from Farmington, Maine
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"Whether it's writing a biography of Yo-Yo Ma or working on...
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Dave Simpson, a pastor from Belcamp, Maryland
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2009 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Season 24 4-time champion:...
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Steve Schirripa, an actor from The Sopranos
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"Once the entertainment director at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas,...
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Al Franken, an author and comedian from Lateline
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"His latest book hit the New York Times bestseller list in...
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Theodora Messalas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Brooklyn, New York
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"This future author and illustrator placed second in a regional story-telling...
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Buzz Aldrin, a retired astronaut and author from the book Encounter with Tiber
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"He's an entry in every encyclopedia, author of the book Encounter...
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Tamika Turner, an 11-year-old eighth grader from Sylvania, Ohio
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"She wants to be a journalist, because it’s important for the...
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Erin McLean, a sophomore from Boston University from Danvers, Massachusetts
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2011 Tournament of Champions wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 2010-B College Championship winner:...
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Scott Menke, a senior from Johns Hopkins University
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2009 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 21 and from Flemington, New Jersey...
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Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon and TV host from The Dr. Oz Show
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"He is a renowned cardiac surgeon who has written seven New...
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Saad Hasan, a nanotechnology scientist from Nashville, Tennessee
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Season 26 1-time champion: $22,700 + $2,000. Saad Hasan Nashville, TN...
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Janet Bradlow, an insurance agent from New York, New York
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Season 26 3-time champion: $58,000 + $2,000. Janet Bradlow New York,...
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Aisha Tyler, an actress, comedian, author and reality-show host from Archer
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"In addition to film and TV roles, she performs comedy at...
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Wolf Blitzer, a journalist from The Situation Room
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"Since 1990, he's covered every major story for CNN, including the...
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Leah Anthony Libresco, a junior from Yale University
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2010-A College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. Hometown: Mineola, New York. Jeopardy!...
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Lyndsey Romick, a sophomore from Lewis & Clark College
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2010-A College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Hometown: Grants Pass, Oregon. Lyndsey Romick...
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Harry Shearer, a humorist, Spinal Tap bassist, and voice from The Simpsons
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"He recently celebrated the 25th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap...
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Scott Turow, a bestselling novelist and practicing attorney from Chicago, Illinois
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"He's sold more than 25 million copies of his novels worldwide...
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Ryan Holznagel, a writer originally from Forest Grove, Oregon
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"He was the winner of the 1995 Tournament of Champions. Now,...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer and CEO from London, United Kingdom
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\"He became a winner of the second-ever Tournament of Champions in...
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Chuck Forrest, an attorney for the UN IFAD from Marino, Italy
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\"In 1986, he was a law student living in Grand Blanc,...
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Justin Hofstetter, a sixth and seventh grade language arts and social studies teacher from Kansas City, Missouri
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"This sixth and seventh grade teacher is in his first year...
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Clarence Page, a journalist from The Chicago Tribune
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"His nationally syndicated column began as a local column for the...
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Chuck Todd, a journalist and chief White House correspondent from NBC News and Meet the Press
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"Chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News, he...
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Chris Matthews, a TV host from Hardball and The Chris Matthews Show
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"He served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, and later as...
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Jesse Cuevas, a corporate lawyer originally from Leawood, Kansas
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Season 27 3-time champion: $65,981 + $2,000. Brother of Season 30...
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Michael Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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"He was the winner of the 1996 Tournament of Champions. Today...
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Dana Delany, an actress from Desperate Housewives
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"She won two Emmys for her work on China Beach. This...
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Isaac Mizrahi, a fashion designer and TV personality from the QVC Network
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"His fashion designs are a favorite among celebrities on the red...
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Tom Bergeron, an Emmy Award-winning host from Dancing with the Stars
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2009 Celebrity Jeopardy! player: $25,000 to the Muscular Dystrophy Association. "He's...
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Jennifer Broders, a junior high school social studies teacher from Stockton, Iowa
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Season 26 2-time champion: $59,801 + $1,000. Jennifer Broders - a...
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Lea Tottle, a junior from Florida State University from Oldsmar, Florida
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2010-B College Championship wildcard semifinalist: $10,000 + a Nintendo Wii +...
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Kerri Regan, a senior from Bethpage, New York
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 17 at the time of the...
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Frank Firke, a junior from Chicago, Illinois
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2007 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 16 at the time of...
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Susan Haarman, a sophomore at Marquette University from Louisville, Kentucky
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2001 College Championship quarterfinalist: $2,500. Susan was 19 at the time...
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Babu Srinivasan, a history professor at Prairie View A&M University from Houston, Texas
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"A five-time champion in 2001, he's now a history professor at...
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Lance Johnson, a model aircraft engine technician from Champaign, Illinois
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"He was the first to get to the 5-win mark in...
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Sandra Gore, a corporate researcher from Berkeley, California
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"After five wins in 1987, she fulfilled her dream of moving...
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Steve Golden, a junior from Brookeville, Maryland
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2005 Teen Tournament semifinalist: $5,000. 16 at the time of the...
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Bob Fleenor, a newspaper copy editor from Martinsburg, West Virginia
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2001 Tournament...
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Michael Rankins, a minister and writer from Rohnert Park, California
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\"A 5-show winner from 1988, he has been a minister with...
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Lizzie O'Leary, an aviation and regulation correspondent from CNN
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"She broke the news that Chrysler would file for Chapter 11...
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Stephanie Hull, a graduate student of philosophy from Columbia, Missouri
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Season 31 player (2015-03-12). Stephanie's ending score of -$6,800 was the...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Allan Long, a freshman from Tallahassee, Florida
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2005 Teen Tournament quarterfinalist: $2,500. 14 at the time of the...
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Arthur Phillips, an author from Brooklyn, New York
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"He was a speechwriter from Boston when he won five shows...
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Grace Thomas, an 11-year-old sixth grader from Raleigh, North Carolina
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"This captain of the Brain-Bowl team can name all the countries...
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Michael Braun, a junior from Silver Spring, Maryland
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 2005 Teen...
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Greer Mackebee, a senior at Duke University from Knoxville, Tennessee
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2012 College Championship semifinalist: $10,000. 22 at the time of the...
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Matthew Cline, a 12-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas
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"John Grisham's books have inspired him. He's firm. He wants to...
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Robin Kutner, from Newtown, Pennsylvania
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"This member of jazz band has a cat that is the...
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Will Casper, a senior from Basin City, Washington
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2008-A Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000. 17 at the time of...
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Leatrice Potter, from Olney, Illinois
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"This published poet likes to read at any free moment and...
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Jake Houser, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Aptos, California
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"And this straight-A student would like to become a geneticist so...
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John LeDonne, a book buyer from Arlington, Massachusetts
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1991 Tournament...
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Taylor Gailliot, from Woodbridge, Virginia
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"When asked what she wanted us to know about her, she...
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Matt Schnippert, a sophomore at Florida State University from Jacksonville, Florida
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2001 College Championship 1st runner-up: $19,801. Matt was 19 at the...
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Wil Curiel, an 11-year-old from Costa Mesa, California
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"His favorite subject is science, so it's not surprising that this...
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Chris Hardwick, a television personality from Singled Out
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"From the hit show Singled Out, his father has been singled...
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Edward Lee, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Sacramento, California
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"Of the numerous projects he has completed, making gliders and bottle...
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Josh Klein, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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"And, his favorite subjects in school are math, social studies, and...
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Hilary Teeman, a book editor from New York, New York
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Season 24 player (2008-04-28). Daughter of Season 2 player Alan Rubin...
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Mallory Kass, a children's book editor from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 38 1-time champion: $14,100 + $1,000. Using the pen name...
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Lucy Ricketts, a book designer and freelance illustrator from Atlanta, Georgia
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2023 Champions Wildcard 1st runner-up: $50,000. Season 37 3-time champion: $79,499...
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Diane Levinson, a book publicist from Astoria, New York
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Season 30 1-time champion: $16,800 + $1,000. Diane is the cousin...
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Guy Tabachnick, from New York, New York
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"He wants to be a baseball announcer for the New York...
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Ethan Waldman, a twelve-year-old from West Hills, California
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"This wizard of words wants to be a fantasy author when...
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Ross Gardiner, an 11-year-old sixth grader from La Plata, Maryland
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"And this self-proclaimed sports fanatic likes all the teams in the...
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Tim Koch, a 12-year-old sixth grader from Cliffwood, New Jersey
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"He would like to be a teacher because you get to...
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Crystal Durham, a 12-year-old from Fort Pierce, Florida
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"She would like to be an Irish stepdancing teacher, because dancing...
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Gabby Dannunzio, a 12-year-old from Largo, Florida
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"This future author is already trying to publish her book. From...
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Lorna Johnson, a 12-year-old seventh grader from Willowbrook, Illinois
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"She loves all animals, especially her dogs Duke and Rudy, but...
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Wes Kovarik, a senior from Antioch, California
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2005 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $30,000.
17 at the time of the Teen Tournament.
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Nithya Kubendran, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Quartz Hill, California
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"When asked about her future plans, she said, 'World domination sounds...
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Regina Merrill, from Lincoln, Nebraska
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"She's very good at writing stories and poetry, but her love...
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Christine Valada, a photographer and attorney originally from Walton, New York
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $68,703...
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Elizabeth Galoozis, a reference librarian from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 26 2-time champion: $38,801 + $2,000. Elizabeth Galoozis - A...
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Ryan Chaffee, a tutor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions quarterfinalist: $5,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $91,900...
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Jove Graham, a biomedical engineer from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
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Season 26 1-time champion: $34,401 + $1,000. Jove's second contestant interview...
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Andy Srinivasan, a high school science teacher from Garner, North Carolina
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 26 4-time champion: $69,600...
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Sanders Kleinfeld, a publishing technology specialist from Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,597 + $2,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Jean Cui, a student originally from Garden City, New York
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Season 25 2-time champion: $14,200 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Jeff Love, a sophomore at Stanford University from Burlingame, California
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2004 College Championship quarterfinalist: $5,000. Jeff won $1,000 on Who Wants...
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Liz Murphy, a foreign service officer originally from Scranton, Pennsylvania
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2010 Tournament of Champions semifinalist: $10,000. Season 25 5-time champion: $121,302...
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Stacy Braverman, a public interest lawyer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 26 1-time champion: $14,984 + $2,000. As detailed in a...
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Gary Bechtold, a garage door company owner from St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Season 26 3-time champion: $42,001 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Rebecca Dixon, a graduate student and musician from Vancouver, Washington
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Season 26 2-time champion: $53,002 + $1,000. Rebecca and her partner...
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Maria Bartiromo, a business anchor from CNBC
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2004 Power Players Week player (2004-05-11). Charities: National Italian American Foundation...
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Iliza Shlesinger, a comedian from New York City
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"A comedian from New York City, she has six Netflix specials...
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Inta Antler, a retired computer programmer from Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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Season 25 1-time champion: $12,700 + $2,000. Inta Antler - A...
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Kevin Wilson, a communications specialist from Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Season 26 3-time champion: $76,998 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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A.J. Schumacher, a radio show production intern from St. Paul, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $10,800 + $2,000. AJ Schumacher Saint Paul,...
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Carolyn Young, a homemaker from Marietta, Georgia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $30,000 + $2,000. Mother of Season 32...
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Stefan Goodreau, a video game tester and camp counselor from Los Angeles, California
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2010 Tournament of Champions 2nd runner-up (semifinalist by wildcard): $50,000. Season...
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Chris Rodrigues, a personal banking representative from New Bedford, Massachusetts
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Season 26 3-time champion: $41,498 + $2,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Emily Heaney, a freelance costume designer from White Bear Lake, Minnesota
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Season 25 1-time champion: $2,200 + $1,000. Last name pronounced like...
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Melanie Baker-Streevy, a United Methodist pastor from Parma, Michigan
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Season 25 1-time champion: $26,900 + $1,000. Melanie Baker-Streevy - A...
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Harris Cohen, a family physician from Lower Gwynedd, Pennsylvania
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Season 25 2-time champion: $17,800 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Chuck Todd, a political director and host from NBC News and NBC's Meet the Press
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"He is the political director of NBC News, the host of...
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Diane Wilshere, an actor and playwright from Manassas, Virginia
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Season 25 1-time champion: $18,801 + $1,000. Jeopardy! Message Board user...
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Andrew Kreitz, a senior from Huntington Beach, California
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2006 Teen Tournament 1st runner-up: $25,000.
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Chuck Forrest, a law student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a student from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a foreign service officer originally from Grand Blanc, Michigan
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Chuck Forrest, a lawyer from Marino, Italy
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2024 Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament quarterfinalist: $5,000. 2014 Battle of the Decades...
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Mark Lowenthal, a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Christy Gibson, a family medicine physician from Issaquah, Washington
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Season 28 player (2012-07-09). Christy's ending score of -$6,400 was the...
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Patrick Pearce, a product specialist from Fountain Valley, California
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Season 37 player (2021-07-26). Patrick's ending score of -$7,400 is the...
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Mike Day, a finance and marketing MBA student from Columbus, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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Mark Lowenthal, a foreign policy analyst from Reston, Virginia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Mark Lowenthal, a State Department employee from Reston, Virginia
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2014 Battle of the Decades quarterfinalist: $10,000. 2005 Ultimate Tournament of...
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Lindsay Oxx, a senior from Longmeadow, Massachusetts
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2009 Teen Tournament wildcard semifinalist: $10,000.
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Mark Lowenthal, an intelligence educator from Reston, Virginia
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"He won the 1988 Tournament of Champions while working for the...
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Michael Day, a financial analyst from Columbus, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 player: $5,000. 1985 Tournament...
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Ellen Kimmel, a school nurse from Nanuet, New York
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Season 27 2-time champion: $37,000 + $1,000.
Jeopardy! Message Board user name: SkoolRN
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Michael Dupee, an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Mike Dupée, an attorney from Gainesville, Florida
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2005 Ultimate Tournament of Champions Round 1 winner: $32,500. Lost his...
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Michela Rodriguez, from Poway, California
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"This future author created a board game and had to compete...
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Joan Kantor, a controller originally from Brooklyn, New York
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Season 1 player (1985-04-26). Joan's ending score of -$5,100 is the...
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Heather Chapman, a news assistant from Lexington, Kentucky
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Season 24 player (2008-01-04). Heather appeared on Master Minds on 2020-05-07....
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Jonathan Franzen, a best-selling author from Purity and The Corrections
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"His best-selling novels are critically acclaimed and have won numerous honors,...
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Charlotte Darby, from West Chester, Pennsylvania
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"Her crafts include crochet, origami, and friendship bracelets. From West Chester,...
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S.E. Cupp, a political commentator from CNN, New York Daily News, and Glamour
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"She writes for the New York Daily News, is a contributor...
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Emily Zhang, from Indianapolis, Indiana
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"A National Science Merit Award recipient, she plans on becoming a...
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Kelly Scurry, an 11-year-old seventh grader from Lauderhill, Florida
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"It's very convenient that Washington, D.C. is his favorite city, because...
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Hill Harper, an actor from CSI: NY
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"He graduated magna cum laude from Brown University. He has a...
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Dominic Clust, from Metairie, Louisiana
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"This future lawyer likes to argue and he's good at it....
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Kate Horowitz, a science writer from Washington, D.C.
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Season 31 player (2014-10-02). Kate is published co-author of the coffee-table...
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Dan Ford, an editor from Arlington, Virginia
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Season 21 player (2004-11-24). KJL game 71. Dan resides in Tysons...
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Bill Maher, a comedian and author from Politically Incorrect
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"A comedian and author, he hosts the lively discussion group called...
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Chas Wilson, an artillery officer from Watertown, New York
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Season 3 player (1986-09-25).
Pictured on page 82 of The Jeopardy! Book.
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Jim Bell, a student from Branford, Connecticut
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Season 3 player (1986-09-25).
Pictured on page 83 of The Jeopardy! Book.
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Tucker Warner, from Fredericksburg, Virginia
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"At the beginning of the school year, he worked on a...
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Michelle Chang, an 11-year-old from Suwanee, Georgia
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"This sixth grader picks the most unusual places to lose her...
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Alex Silady, an 11-year-old from Edison, New Jersey
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"He hopes to be an entrepreneur, because he likes doing things...
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Lyn Thomas, a library assistant from Redmond, Washington
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Season 27 1-time champion: $13,100 + $1,000.
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Carol Hager, a high school librarian from Peoria, Arizona
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Season 22 player (2005-09-21).
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